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Counselors approve of easy access to methadone treatment: Study
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.32941
Subject(s) - methadone , workload , psychological intervention , medicine , expanded access , nursing , psychology , family medicine , psychiatry , computer science , operating system
A study of counselor attitudes about an “open‐access” methadone program they worked in found that patients and counselors benefit from same‐day access and making treatment more individualized to patient needs. However, downsides were that for clinicians, some patients needed extra care and sometimes intensive interventions, making workload unpredictable, and the increased census resulted in some “chaos” in the building.