What happens to drug misusers? A medium‐term follow‐up of subjects new to treatment | Zendy

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What happens to drug misusers? A medium‐term follow‐up of subjects new to treatment

Author(s) -

OPPENHEIMER EDNA,

SHEEHAN MARGARET,

TAYLOR COLIN

Publication year - 1990

Publication title -

british journal of addiction

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424

H-Index - 193

eISSN - 1360-0443

pISSN - 0952-0481

DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1990.tb01601.x

Subject(s) - abstinence , drug , medicine , therapeutic community , prison , opiate , psychiatry , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , drug treatment , family medicine , psychology , criminology , receptor

In a 2.5–5 year follow‐up study of 150 drug misusers who were new to treatment at three London Drug Treatment agencies, a 77% follow‐up rate was obtained. High rates of self‐reported abstinence from opiates and other drugs were found. Some 37% of those followed‐up were totally drug free at follow‐up. Seventy‐one per cent were living in the community and of those 73% were opiate free and 35% were totally drug free. Only 18% had injected in the 4 weeks prior to follow‐up. Thirteen per cent were in prison and 12% were resident in a therapeutic community. Being told about the dangers of HIV had persuaded some people to give up using drugs.

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