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What are the benefits of methadone maintenance?

April 26, 2017Benefits maintenance methadone

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What are the benefits of methadone maintenance?

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First and foremost, it dramatically reduces use of heroin and other illicit opioid drugs. A landmark study in the 1970’s, at the height of nation’s heroin epidemic, observed over 10,00 NYC patients in methadone treatment and found an 85% reduction in the number using heroin within the first year of treatment, 94% reduction among patients in treatment 3 years or more.