The Effectiveness of Methadone Maintenance Treatment: Patients, Programs, Services, and Outcome

by Alan Ross and John C. Ball

Legislators, journalists and concerned citizens in general, when consider- ing what to do about the plague of heroin addiction in large cities, ask an obvious question: "Is methadone treatment effective?" This question is a critical one since maintenance with methadone is at present the only prac- tical alternative to leaving tens of thousands (in New York City, hundreds of thousands) of untreated addicts on the streets. Other treatments, although...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461390915
• ISBN13: 9781461390916
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"