Hickman, Matthew and Macleod, John and Degenhardt, Louisa (2016) Commentary on Cousins et al. (2016): Accumulating evidence on risk of mortality on and off opioid substitution treatment. Addiction, 111, (1), pp. 83-84.
The National Irish cohort study strengthens evidence on the hazards of leaving opioid substitution treatment (OST) and dangers of short duration treatment and provides the first piece of evidence for future syntheses of the effect of supervised consumption on mortality risk in people on OST.
B Substances > Opioids (opiates) > Opioid product > Methadone
HJ Treatment or recovery method > Substance disorder treatment method > Substance replacement method (substitution) > Opioid agonist treatment (methadone maintenance / buprenorphine)
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Risk and protective factors > Risk factors
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Harm reduction > Substance use harm reduction
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Health care programme, service or facility > Community-based treatment (primary care)
P Demography, epidemiology, and history > Population dynamics > Substance related mortality / death
VA Geographic area > Europe > Ireland
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