Health Related Quality of Life in Individuals Transferred from a Needle Exchange Program and Starting Opioid Agonist Treatment

Background. Opioid agonist treatment (OAT), for the treatment of heroin dependence, has been reported to improve overall health and lower mortality. Drug use and retention in treatment have often been used as measures of treatment success. More recently, however, researchers have suggested that meas...

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Main Authors: Martin Bråbäck, Louise Brådvik, Katja Troberg, Pernilla Isendahl, Suzan Nilsson, Anders Håkansson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2018-01-01
Series:Journal of Addiction
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/3025683