ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2012
Tobacco addiction and smoking status in heroin addicts under methadone vs. buprenorphine therapy.
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- Cigarette Smoking Cessation Intervention for Buprenorphine Treatment Patients.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2018Trial
- Contingency management for tobacco smoking during opioid addiction treatment: a randomised pilot study.BMJ open · 2017Trial
- Heroin use impairs smoking cessation among Australian prisoners.BMC public health · 2013Trial
- A comparison of cigarette smoking profiles in opioid-dependent pregnant patients receiving methadone or buprenorphine.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2013Trial
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- The phenomics and genetics of addictive and affective comorbidity in opioid use disorder.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2021Review
- Nicotine and Opioids: a Call for Co-treatment as the Standard of Care.The journal of behavioral health services & research · 2020Review
- The Chinese version of obsessive compulsive drug use scale: validation in outpatient methadone maintenance treatment program.BMC psychiatry · 2020Article
- Determining correlates of the average number of cigarette smoking among college students using count regression models.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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- Family and social predictors of substance use disorder in Iran: a case-control study.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2019Article
- Cigarette Smoking Is Significantly Linked to Sexual Dissatisfaction in Chinese Heroin-Dependent Patients Receiving Methadone Maintenance Treatment.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
- Self-Rated Physical Health and Unmet Healthcare Needs among Swedish Patients in Opioid Substitution Treatment.Journal of addiction · 2019Article
- The association between nicotine dependence and physical health among people receiving injectable diacetylmorphine or hydromorphone for the treatment of chronic opioid use disorder.Addictive behaviors reports · 2018Article
- Emotion recognition and its relation to prefrontal function and network in heroin plus nicotine dependence: a pilot study.Neurophotonics · 2018Article
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Abstract
Aims of the present investigation were: (i) to assess the prevalence of current smokers and relative smoking status among a large number of heroin addicts attending opioid-substitution therapy prevalence; (ii) to evaluate the relationship between the type (methadone, buprenorphine) and dosage of opioid substitution therapy and nicotine dependence. Three hundred and five (305) heroin addicts under opioid-substitution therapy were recruited at five Addiction Units. All participants completed a questionnaire assessing sociodemographic information, type and dose of opioid-substitution therapy, smoking history and status, Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND), and the Zung Self-Rating Depression scale (SDS). 298 subjects, out of 305 (97.2%) were smokers, with an average of 20.5 cigarette/day and a median FTND of 6. Our data confirmed the high prevalence of smokers among heroin addicts, the highest described in the literature to date among heroin addicts under substitution therapies, without any significant difference between methadone vs. buprenorphine therapy groups. There was no correlation between dose of methadone or buprenorphine and average number of cigarettes/day. Patients in substance abuse treatment very frequently smoke cigarettes and often die of tobacco-related diseases. Substance abuse treatment programs too often ignore tobacco use. We hope that these findings will help to incorporate smoking cessation in substance abuse treatments.
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