Risk factors for needle sharing among methadone-treated patients
American Journal of PsychiatryPublished 1 May 1991
David S. Metzger, George Woody, Dominick De Philippis, A. Thomas McLellan, Charles P. O’Brien, Jerome J. Platt
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These data suggest that patients who continue to share needles are a more disturbed subgroup of the methadone maintenance population, and these patients may require more intensive psychiatric services.
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These data suggest that patients who continue to share needles are a more disturbed subgroup of the methadone maintenance population. Efforts designed to reduce needle sharing may need to be more sharply focused on patients who are at greatest risk of infection, and these patients may require more intensive psychiatric services.
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