Methadone Treatment
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Abstract
After several decades of experience with methadone maintenance treatment for narcotic addiction, given to well over 100,000 patients throughout the world, there continue to be widely divergent views about its effectiveness. To a large extent, this is the result of different perspectives on the definition and measurement of "success" of treatment for addiction in general and of this treatment in particular.Goals That Conflict with the Philosophy OF TreatmentRegardless of the expressed goals and underlying philosophy of programs that treat addiction, the usual measure of effectiveness is abstinence from illicit drugs after treatment has been "completed." The inappropriateness of . . .