Opiate users and the first years after treatment: outcome analysis of the proportion of follow up time spent in abstinence |
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Authors: | M Sheehan E Oppenheimer C Taylor |
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Affiliation: | Institute of Psychiatry, National Addiction Centre, London, UK. |
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Abstract: | This second report on a follow-up study of drug users focuses on changes that occurred on a number of variables between intake and follow-up and during the follow-up period. The length of abstinence from opiates was considered as a proportion of the total follow-up period. Overall there was a reduction in opiate use, in injecting and sharing equipment at follow-up. There had been, however, a high level of these risky activities during the follow-up period. Sustained abstinence from opiates was associated with increased employment, enhanced social stability and mental health. Intake drug use was strongly related to follow-up drug status. In particular, those who were injectors of multiple drugs at intake were far less likely to be long term opiate abstainers at follow-up than those who were not injectors at intake or injectors of opiates only. |
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