Hospital psychiatric comorbidity and its role in heroin dependence treatment outcomes using naltrexone implant or methadone maintenance

Our objectives were to (i) estimate lifetime prevalence of psychiatric comorbidity in heroin users and (ii) evaluate psychiatric comorbidity as a predictor of drug-related hospitalization following either (a) methadone maintenance or (b) naltrexone implant treatment.Our method consisted of retrospec...

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Main Authors: Ngo, H., Tait, Robert, Hulse, G.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24713