ArticleAddictive behaviors reports2017
Characteristics of adherence to methadone maintenance treatment over a 15-year period among homeless adults experiencing mental illness.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Prevalence and predictors of medication non-adherence among people living with multimorbidity: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ open · 2021Pooled it
- The effectiveness of a transtheoretical model based on health education intervention on adherence to methadone maintenance treatment: a quasi-experimental study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Treatment non-adherence among methadone maintenance patients and associated factors: a multicenter, cross-sectional study in Vietnam.Harm reduction journal · 2024Article
- Persistence in the Methadone Maintenance Program and Its Relationship with the Medication Regimen Complexity Index in Opioid-Dependent Patients.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Psychosocial challenges affecting patient-defined medication for opioid use disorder treatment outcomes in a low-income, underserved population: Application of the social-ecological framework.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2023Article
- Patient experiences of COVID-19-induced changes to methadone treatment in a large community-based opioid treatment program in Baltimore.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2023Article
- Severe Psychopathology and Substance Use Disorder Modify the Association Between Housing Trajectories and Food Security Among Homeless Adults.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Article
- One year of methadone maintenance treatment in a fentanyl endemic area: Safety, repeated exposure, retention, and remission.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2020Article
- Treatment adherence amongst drug users attending public and private methadone maintenance clinics in a northern province of Vietnam.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2020Article
- Characteristics Associated with Nonmedical Methadone Use among People Who Inject Drugs in California.Substance use & misuse · 2020Article
- A Multi-sourced Data Analytics Approach to Measuring and Assessing Biopsychosocial Complexity: The Vancouver Community Analytics Tool Complexity Module (VCAT-CM).Community mental health journal · 2019Article
- Comorbid opioid use is undertreated among forensic patients with schizophrenia.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2018Article
- Methadone maintenance treatment among patients exposed to illicit fentanyl in Rhode Island: Safety, dose, retention, and relapse at 6 months.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundMethadone maintenance treatment (MMT) has important protective effects related to reduced illicit opioid use, infectious disease transmission, and overdose mortality. Adherence to MMT has not been examined among homeless people. We measured MMT adherence and reported relevant characteristics among homeless adults experiencing mental illness in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. MATERIAL AND
methodsHomeless adults living with mental illness who had received MMT prior to the baseline interview of the Vancouver At Home study (
resultsMean MMT MPR was 0.47. A large proportion of participants reported blood-borne infectious disease, three or more chronic physical health conditions, and substance use. Being single and never married was associated with significantly lower MMT MPR (0.40 vs. 0.55,
conclusionsThe level of adherence to MMT was very low among homeless adults experiencing mental illness. Efforts are needed to improve adherence to MMT as a means of reducing illicit substance use, preventing overdose deaths, and attenuating infectious disease transmission.
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