Current situation on new psychoactive substances abuse among methadone maintenance treatment patients in China.

VernacularTitle:中国美沙酮维持治疗者新型毒品滥用情况研究进展
Author: Z CHENG ¹ ; M M DAI ; X B CAO
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1. National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China.
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Methadone maintenance treatment patients; New psychoactive substances
MeSH: Adult; China/epidemiology*; Female; Humans; Male; Methadone/therapeutic use*; Opiate Substitution Treatment; Prevalence; Psychotropic Drugs/adverse effects*; Substance Abuse Treatment Centers; Substance-Related Disorders/epidemiology*; Surveys and Questionnaires
From: Chinese Journal of Epidemiology 2018;39(4):536-540
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) greatly contributed to the successful outcomes of prevention and control on both AIDS and drug abuse in China. However, the features on drug abuse changed in the past decades, and the prevalence of new psychoactive substances abuse potentially somehow offset the achievement of MMT. This paper concised the information on research and surveys of this issue that targeting on the current situation, characteristics, related factors and relevant public health problem on new psychoactive substances abuse, among patients who have been on MMT, in China.