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Dissimilarity for functional data clustering based on smoothing parameter commutation.
Many studies measure the same type of information longitudinally on the same subject at multiple time points, and clustering of such functional data has many important applications. We propose a novel and easy method to...
Impulsivity and craving in subjects with opioid use disorder on methadone maintenance treatment.
Jun Li, Kathrin Weidacker, Alekhya Mandali, Yingying Zhang, Seb Whiteford, Qihuan Ren, Zhirong Zhou, Huijing Zhou, Haifeng Jiang, Jiang Du, Chencheng Zhang, Bomin Sun, Valerie Voon
Dec 01, 2020
BACKGROUND: Methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) is effective in decreasing opioid use or facilitating abstinence. Previous studies using small opioid use disorder samples suggest that cognitive impairments including...
Risk-factors for methadone-specific deaths in Scotland's methadone-prescription clients between 2009 and 2013.
Lu Gao, Polyxeni Dimitropoulou, J Roy Robertson, Stuart McTaggart, Marion Bennie, Sheila M Bird
Jul 10, 2018
AIM: To quantify gender, age-group and quantity of methadone prescribed as risk factors for drugs-related deaths (DRDs), and for methadone-specific DRDs, in Scotland's methadone-prescription clients. DESIGN: Linkage to...
Age-group Daily-dose Deaths Drugs-related Gender Methadone-specific Prescribed-methadone Quantity Quintiles Risk-factors Adult Age Factors Analgesics Opioid Cause of Death Female Heroin Dependence Humans Male Methadone Middle Aged Opiate substitution treatment Risk Factors Scotland Suicide Young Adult
Responses among substance abuse treatment providers to the opioid epidemic in the USA
OBJECTIVE: To identify the geographic, organisational, and payment correlates of buprenorphine and methadone treatment among substance abuse treatment (SAT) providers. METHODS: Secondary analyses of the National Survey of...
Factors affecting repeated cessations of injecting drug use and relapses during the entire injecting career among the Edinburgh Addiction Cohort.
Yang Xia, Shaun Seaman, Matthew Hickman, John Macleod, Roy Robertson, Lorraine Copeland, Jim McKenzie, Daniela De Angelis
Jun 14, 2018
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Injecting drug use is a chronic condition, with people who inject drugs (PWID) typically experiencing repeated cessations and relapses during their injection careers. We characterize patterns of ceasing and...
Cessation Heroin addiction Opiate substitution treatment Random effects model recurrent events Relapse Adolescent Adult Age Factors Behavior Addictive Child Chronic Disease Cohort Studies Female Humans Male Opiate Substitution Treatment Recurrence Scotland Substance Abuse Intravenous Time Factors Young Adult
Differences in receipt of opioid agonist treatment and time to enter treatment for opioid use disorder among specialty addiction programs in the United States, 2014-17.
BACKGROUND: Access to adequate treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) has been a high priority among American policymakers. Elucidation of the sociodemographic and institutional differences associated with the use, or lack...
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LM Paterson, D Barker, S Cro, P Mozgunov, R Phillips, C Smith, L Nahar, S Paterson, AR Lingford-Hughes
Nov 18, 2022
BACKGROUND: Treatment of opiate addiction with opiate substitution treatment (e.g. methadone) is beneficial. However, some individuals desire or would benefit from abstinence but there are limited options to attenuate problems...
Adaptive Addiction Baclofen Bayesian dependence dose escalation GABA-B Methadone opiate phase I Humans Analgesics Opioid Baclofen Bayes Theorem Carbon Dioxide Cholecalciferol GABA-B Receptor Agonists Hypnotics and Sedatives Methadone Nicotine Opiate substitution treatment Opioid-Related Disorders Single-Blind Method vitamin D