Factors predicting retention in treatment: 10-year experience of a methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) clinic in Israel

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 211-217

  Peles, Einat ^a   Schreiber, Shaul ^a,b   Adelson, Miriam ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Kaplan Meier survival analyses; Methadone maintenance treatment; Predictors; Retention

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE DERIVATIVE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CANNABIS; COCAINE; METHADONE; OPIATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; ISRAEL; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHADONE TREATMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; URINALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; METHADONE; MIDDLE AGED; NARCOTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CANNABIS;

EID: 33645829087     PISSN: 03768716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2005.09.004     Document Type: Article

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