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The extent to which addict patients’ drug abuse is reduced or eliminated during methadone maintenance treatment is a crucial issue inasmuch as this modality was established to interdict patients’ dependence on illicit opiate use. From this perspective, then, methadone maintenance is effective to the extent that it minimizes or eliminates drug abuse. Three corollary questions, however, also need to be addressed.
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Ball, J.C., Ross, A. (1991). Reduction in Drug Abuse During Methadone Maintenance Treatment. In: The Effectiveness of Methadone Maintenance Treatment. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9089-3_7
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