Concurrent
alcohol dependence poses a significant burden to health and wellbeing of people
with established opioid dependence. Although previous research indicates that
both genetic and environmental risk factors ...
Background: Alcohol use is an important issue among problem drug users. Although screening and brief intervention are effective in reducing problem alcohol use in primary care, no research has examined this issue among ...
Background: There is equivocal evidence regarding whether people who use heroin substitute heroin for alcohol upon entry to methadone maintenance therapy (MMT). We aimed to examine the impact of MMT enrolment on the onset ...
Objective: Many individuals receiving methadone maintenance receive their treatment through their primary care provider. As many also drink alcohol excessively, there is a need to address alcohol use to improve health ...
Background: Identifying and treating problem alcohol use among people who also use illicit drugs is a challenge. Primary care is well placed to address this challenge but there are several barriers which may prevent this ...
BACKGROUND: A recent switch in methadone formulation from methadone (1 mg/mL) to Methadose (10 mg/mL) in British Columbia (BC), Canada, was associated with increased reports of opioid withdrawal and increases in illicit ...
We read with interest Dr Varshney et al.'s article on brief interventions for alcohol use among persons on maintenance treatment published ahead-of-print on August 11, 2015. While alcohol is found in the majority of ...