Mortality in heroin users 3 years after naltrexone implant or methadone maintenance treatment

Concerns that treatment for heroin dependence using naltrexone may increase suicide rates during treatment and fatal overdoses posttreatment have been expressed. There is also disquiet about mortality during induction onto methadone. We assessed mortality during specific periods following treatment...

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Main Authors: Tait, Robert, Ngo, H., Hulse, G.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2008
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34111