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A Pilot Study Comparing Severely and Persistently Mentally III Opiate‐Addicted Patients in Dual‐Diagnosis Treatment With Patients in Methadone Maintenance
Author(s) -
Jaffe Craig,
Comtois Katherine Anne,
Calsyn Donald A.,
Saxon Andrew J.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
the american journal on addictions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.997
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-0391
pISSN - 1055-0496
DOI - 10.1111/j.1521-0391.1998.tb00348.x
Subject(s) - methadone maintenance , methadone , opiate , medicine , mentally ill , psychiatry , dual diagnosis , substance abuse , mental health , mental illness , receptor
The authors describe a severely and persistently mentally ill (SPMI) opiate‐addicted (OA) patient sample (n = 43) in a dual‐diagnosis outpatient treatment program by demographic, clinical, and treatment characteristics and compare these with other dually diagnosed SPMI patients in the same treatment center (n = 297). Also, those SPMI/OA patients with physiological dependence (n = 20) were compared with a matched sample of OA patients in traditional methadone maintenance (n = 20). The authors then present a clinical evaluation of treatment course and outcome for the SPMI/OA patients (n = 43) and discuss implications from these pilot data.