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Redefining retention: recovery from the patient's perspective.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Leaving buprenorphine treatment: patients' reasons for cessation of care.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2014Trial
- Patient perspectives on choosing buprenorphine over methadone in an urban, equal-access system.The American journal on addictionsTrial
- Optimal provision of opiate substitution therapy and needle and syringe programmes: a multi-method realist evaluation.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2025Article
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- "They Ask Questions, But They Don't Want the Answers"-Perceptions of Clinical Communication Among Veterans Discontinuing Buprenorphine for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder.Substance use & addiction journal · 2024Article
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- Patient and Provider Perspectives on Processes of Engagement in Outpatient Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: A Scoping Review.Community mental health journal · 2024Article
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- Nothing about us without us! How users configure clinical treatment in Italian residential communities: ethnography of therapeutic engagement.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Sorting through life: evaluating patient-important measures of success in a medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) treatment program.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2023Article
- The Inclusion of Patients' Reported Outcomes to Inform Treatment Effectiveness Measures in Opioid Use Disorder. A Systematic Review.Patient related outcome measures · 2022Review
- A systematic literature review of patient perspectives of barriers and facilitators to access, adherence, stigma, and persistence to treatment for substance use disorder.Exploratory research in clinical and social pharmacy · 2021Review
- Struggling to achieve a 'normal life': A qualitative study of Vietnamese methadone patients.The International journal on drug policy · 2019Article
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Abstract
This study examines the process of discharge and treatment reentry for six participants who entered treatment voluntarily but were administratively discharged from methadone treatment programs. The participants completed semistructured interviews at treatment entry and at four, eight and 12 months post-treatment entry. Grounded theory methodology was used to examine the phenomenon of treatment reentry from the perspective of the patients, who often viewed their recovery as an accumulation of positive changes. Differences in terms of the patients' goals and motivations for seeking treatment from those of the treatment programs, combined with difficulties encountered during the treatment process eventually led to discharge. However, these patients were then able to navigate their way through the treatment system in different ways in order to remain in treatment. The authors conclude that failure to abide by treatment clinic rules do not necessary constitute "treatment failure" from the perspective of patients, who often wish to remain in treatment even if it is not progressing optimally from the program's perspective. As a result, the recovery process can be more fragmented and is often characterized by a series of cyclical treatment episodes rather than continuous time in treatment, thereby impeding their progress towards recovery.
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