History of medication-assisted treatment and its association with initiating others into injection drug use in San Diego, CA

History of medication-assisted treatment and its association with initiating others into injection drug use in San Diego, CA

Abstract Background Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) remains the gold standard for the treatment of opioid use disorder. MAT also reduces the frequency of injecting among people who inject drugs (PWID). Relatedly, data suggest that PWID play a key role in the initiation of others into drug inject...

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Main Authors: Maria Luisa Mittal, Devesh Vashishtha, Shelly Sun, Sonia Jain, Jazmine Cuevas-Mota, Richard Garfein, Steffanie A. Strathdee, Dan Werb
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-10-01
Series:Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy
Subjects:
Opioid substitution therapy
HIV prevention
HCV prevention
People who inject drugs
Methadone
Opioid agonist treatment
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13011-017-0126-1

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