Heroin Addiction & Methadone Maintenance Deborah Booth Psychology 305 – DO4 Liberty University Heroin Addiction & Methadone Maintenance Diacetylmorphine‚ aka: heroin‚ smack‚ horse‚ black tar‚ china white‚ and H‚ the slang names are as numerous as the places you can score this highly addictive narcotic. Heroin‚ a derivative of morphine‚ via opium‚ which comes from the resin of the Papaver somniferum plant has been in use for nearly 3500 years (Doweiko‚2012‚ p.137). To
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School of Distance Education Methadone Treatment Programs are Effective in Stopping Heroin Use A Paper Presented to Professor Loyd Uglow‚ Ph.D In Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements for the Course THE 5113 Research Literature and Technology Sharon Pete November 28‚ 2012 THESIS STATEMENT: To investigate Methadone maintenance is found to be more effective in treating heroin addiction than 180 day detoxification. The objective is how methadone maintenance‚ a widely used but controversial
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Methadone Maintenance Treatment Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) programs were originally designed to reduce use of heroin and opiates among people addicted to these drugs. Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program has a long history of effiency as a therapy and is a procedure for the addict to become stabilized in their life term. Treatment for drug addiction is an essential method for breaking one’s dependence with drugs‚ while providing the foundation needed to restore normality into his
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METHADONE AND IT’S EFFECTIVENESS INTRODUCTION Methadone occupies a position of huge prominence in drug misuse treatment to date. It is estimated there are around 650‚000 illicit drug users receiving treatment globally (WHO 2008). Historically it was the earliest form of opioid replacement therapy and continues to be the most widely used form in the United States‚ Europe and Australia (Ward et al 1998). The most recent figures for Scotland show approximately 22‚224 people are receiving methadone
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The purpose of Methadone Maintenance programs is to provide addiction services to opioid-addicted individuals. Treatment programs can help addicts decrease their dependence on opioids and provide them with healthier lives. Methadone maintenance has proven to be beneficial in many ways using long-lasting medication and other strategies to help addicts turn their lives around. A recent Cochrane review from 2004 found that methadone treatment is statistically more effective than non-pharmacological
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4. Methadone maintenance is a controversial treatment model for heroin and other narcotic addiction. Write a one page paper either for or against methadone maintenance. Be able to justify your position based upon textbook material‚ lecture notes‚ and outside research. When it comes to heroin‚ I am for complete abstinence. Methadone is a medication admitted to a person to minimize the discomfort of heroin withdrawal symptoms (Hart‚ Ksir‚ Ray 2011). People go through a lot to quit heroin and
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Heroin According to The National Institute on Drug Abuse‚ heroin is an illegal‚ highly addictive drug. It is both the most abused and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is processed from morphine‚ a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seed pod of certain varieties of poppy plants. It is typically sold as a white or brownish powder or as the black sticky substance known on the streets as “black tar heroin”. Although purer heroin is becoming more common‚ most street
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Methadone Maintenance: A safe and effective alternative to opiate dependency Opiate addiction is a chronic disease that affects millions of people in the Unites States. This deadly epidemic is one that in most cases requires some form of medical treatment. There are many treatment options available to those struggling with addiction. The three most well-known options are rapid detox‚ suboxone‚ and methadone maintenance (Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Addiction Facts for Families
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THE DYSPHORIA OF HEROIN ADDICTION Rodney Lowe PSY 2012 July 28‚ 2011 This is a summary of the article The Dysphoria Of Heroin Addiction by Leonard Handelsman and Marvin J. Aronson‚ it is based on the topic of Narcotics that is covered in Chapter 4 of our text. Dysphoric mood is a common symptom of patients who use heroin on a regular basis. Early abuse of heroin is most often associated with feelings of euphoria‚ abstractly‚ long-lasting abuse
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drug addiction‚ most say that using the well-known drug methadone‚ helps fight the existing addiction- take drugs to stop taking drugs? When someone is fighting an addiction‚ one may decide to try and take action to cure their addiction by seeking help. Seeking help may consist of going through a treatment process of taking the well-known drug Methadone. This drug is known to help people fight their addiction to pain pills‚ heroin‚ crack-cocaine‚ and many others‚ or does it? The Methadone treatment
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