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OUTPATIENT DETOXIFICATION IN HEROIN USERS — A COMPARISON OF A HEMINEURIN AND A CLONIDINE REGIME
Author(s) -
Batey R.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
australian alcohol/drug review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.018
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1465-3362
pISSN - 0726-4550
DOI - 10.1080/09595238580000071
Subject(s) - detoxification (alternative medicine) , heroin , clonidine , medicine , drug , attendance , ambulatory care , dropout (neural networks) , psychiatry , anesthesia , health care , alternative medicine , computer science , pathology , machine learning , economics , economic growth
ABSTRACT Heroin using clients often demand help to detoxify from their drug habit but for a variety of reasons, resist inpatient care. This paper reports methods and results employed at Westmead Drug and Alcohol Units in outpatient detoxification. It is demonstrated that heroin detoxification can be successfully achieved in an outpatient setting for carefully selected patients, with a low dropout rate and few complications with daily attendance, using either of two different drug regimes.