Am J Psychiatry 1975; 132:623-626
Copyright © 1975 by American Psychiatric Association
Methadone maintenance: some client opinions
BS Brown, GJ Benn and DR Jansen
The authors found similar attitudes toward methadone and methadone
treatment programs in 75 detoxification and 115 methadone maintenance
clients. Both groups expressed considerable ambivalence--although they
viewed methadone as capable of helping them end their herioin addiction,
they were concerned about possible methadone dependence and about side
effects, both real and imagined. The authors stress the societal context of
such concern and suggest that, althought they are not easily allayed,
limiting the duration of methadone maintenace from the outset of treatment
may be an ameliorative factor.
