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HUNGARY: Methadone Treatment - A Long Way to Go (NEW: Aug 10'06)
The journal Psychiatric Services (June 2006) has an article by Gerevich et al on “degrees of sociocultural resistance” to methadone. It concludes with the hope that the country’s admission to the European Union will “have a favorable influence on the governmental resistance to opioid substitution treatment and to the professional legitimization of methadone maintenance . . . “ Clearly there’s a long way to go. The article notes that in 2005 roughly 400 health care organizations were treating drug users, but 88% do not deal with methadone at all and 8% use it only for detoxification. A mere 4% of all addiction treatment providers in Hungary offer methadone maintenance.
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