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Systematic Reviews of Treatments for Heroin Use
Follow the links below to find systematic reviews of evidence of the effectiveness of treatments for heroin addiction.
Reviewed April 2012
7 Resources Found
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| Title: | Pharmaceutical heroin for heroin maintenance in chronic heroin dependents |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Drug dependent heroin users are preoccupied with the desire to obtain and take heroin and so have persistent drug-seeking behaviours. Those with a long history of treatment attempts and failures may benefit from the provision of heroin and flexible dose... |
| Date: | Jan 2011 |
| Title: | Oral naltrexone as maintenance treatment to prevent relapse in opioid addicts who have undergone detoxification |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Opioid dependence is considered to be a lifelong, chronic relapsing disorder. Substantial therapeutic efforts are needed to keep people drug free. Methadone treatment plays a vital role in detoxification or maintenance programs but some individuals who ... |
| Date: | Jan 2011 |
| Title: | Methadone maintenance therapy versus no opioid replacement therapy |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Methadone maintenance treatment can keep people who are dependent on heroin in treatment programs and reduce their use of heroin. Methadone is the most widely used replacement for heroin in medically-supported maintenance or detoxification programs. Sev... |
| Date: | Feb 2009 |
| Title: | Buprenorphine is more effective than clonidine or lofexidine, and may have advantages over methadone, for the management of opioid withdrawal. |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Dependence on opioid drugs (heroin, methadone) is a major health and social issue in many societies. Managed withdrawal from opioid dependence is an essential first step for drug-free treatment. This review of trials found that the drug buprenorphine is... |
| Date: | Nov 2008 |
| Title: | Maintenance treatments for opiate dependent adolescents |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | It is difficult to draw conclusions about the use of maintenance pharmacological interventions from only two trials. Substance abuse among adolescents (13 to 18 years old) is a serious and growing problem. The most common drugs used by young people worl... |
| Date: | Mar 2008 |
| Title: | Buprenorphine maintenance versus placebo or methadone maintenance for opioid dependence |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Buprenorphine can reduce heroin use compared with placebo, although it is less effective than methadone. Methadone is widely used as a replacement for heroin in medically-supported maintenance or detoxification programs. Two other drugs are sometimes us... |
| Date: | Dec 2007 |
| Title: | Methadone maintenance at different dosages for opioid dependence |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | People who are addicted to opioids have high risks of receiving an overdose of opioid, HIV, hepatitis B and C infections and criminal activity. This has led to a harm reduction treatment approach to drug addiction. Treatment is aimed at a reduction in t... |
| Date: | May 2003 |
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