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ArticleJournal of addiction2016

Correlates of Nine-Month Retention following Interim Buprenorphine-Naloxone Treatment in Opioid Dependence: A Pilot Study.

A Håkansson, C Widinghoff, T Abrahamsson, C Gedeon

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Article in Journal of addiction, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

A HåkanssonDepartment of Clinical Sciences Lund, Division of Psychiatry, Lund University, 221 85 Lund, Sweden; Malmö Addiction Center, Department of Psychiatry, 205 02 Malmö, Skane Region, Sweden.
C WidinghoffDepartment of Clinical Sciences Lund, Division of Psychiatry, Lund University, 221 85 Lund, Sweden; Malmö Addiction Center, Department of Psychiatry, 205 02 Malmö, Skane Region, Sweden.
T AbrahamssonDepartment of Clinical Sciences Lund, Division of Psychiatry, Lund University, 221 85 Lund, Sweden; Malmö Addiction Center, Department of Psychiatry, 205 02 Malmö, Skane Region, Sweden.
C GedeonDepartment of Clinical Sciences Lund, Division of Psychiatry, Lund University, 221 85 Lund, Sweden; Solstenen Outpatient Unit for Opiate Maintenance Treatment, Östra Mårtensgatan 15, 223 61 Lund, Sweden.
Lund University · SEMalmö Municipality · SE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Interim medication-only treatment has been suggested for the initiation of opioid maintenance treatment (OMT) in opioid-dependent subjects, but this rarely has been studied using buprenorphine instead of methadone. Following a pilot trial assessing interim buprenorphine-naloxone treatment in order to facilitate transfer into OMT, we here aimed to study retention, and potential correlates of retention, in full-scale treatment. Thirty-six patients successfully referred from a waiting list through an interim treatment phase were followed for nine months in OMT. Baseline characteristics, as well as urine analyses during the interim phase and during full-scale OMT, were studied as potential correlates of retention. The nine-month retention in OMT was 83 percent (n = 30). While interim-phase urine samples positive for benzodiazepines did not significantly predict dropout from full-scale OMT (p = 0.09), urine samples positive for benzodiazepines within full-scale OMT were significantly associated with dropout (p < 0.01), in contrast to other substances and baseline characteristics. Retention remained high through nine months in this pilot study sample of patients referred through buprenorphine-naloxone interim treatment, but use of benzodiazepines is problematic, and the present data suggest that it may be associated with treatment dropout.

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PMID26904355
PMCPMC4745813
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