Psychosocial combined with agonist maintenance treatments versus agonist maintenance treatments alone for treatment of opioid dependence.
Cochrane Database Syst Rev
; (4): CD004147, 2004 Oct 18.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Methadone maintenance at proper doses is effective in retaining patients in treatment and suppressing heroin use. Questions remain regarding the efficacy of the psychosocial services that are offered by most maintenance programs.OBJECTIVES:
To evaluate the effectiveness of any psychosocial plus any agonist maintenance treatment versus any agonist treatment alone in retaining patients in treatment, reducing the use of substances and improving health and social status. SEARCH STRATEGY We searched the Cochrane Central Register of Trials (CENTRAL) issue 3, 2003; MEDLINE 1966-2003; EMBASE 1980-2003; PsycINFO 1985-2003; relevant web sites; scan of reference list of relevant articles. There were no language or publication restrictions. SELECTION CRITERIA RCTs which focus on any psychosocial plus any agonist compared to any agonist maintenance intervention for opiate dependence. People aged less than 18 and pregnant women were excluded. Psychosocial in combination with antagonist maintenance treatment are excluded too. DATA COLLECTION ANDANALYSIS:
The trials were independently assessed for inclusion and methodological quality by the reviewers. Data were extracted independently and double checked. MAINRESULTS:
The searching process resulted in the identification of 77 different studies 12 studies met the inclusion criteria. These studies considered 8 different psychosocial interventions and 1 pharmacological treatment Methadone Maintenance (MMT). The results show additional benefit in adding any psychosocial treatment to standard methadone maintenance treatment in relation to the use of heroin during the treatment RR 0.69 (95% CI 0.53-0.91); no statistically significant additional benefit was shown in terms of retention in treatment RR 0.94 (95% CI 0.85-1.02); and results at follow-up RR 0.90 (95% CI 0.76-1.07). REVIEWERS'CONCLUSIONS:
The present evidence suggests that adding any psychosocial support to Standard MMT significantly improves the non-use of heroin during treatment. Retention in treatment and results at follow-up are also improved, although this findings did not achieve statistical significance. Insufficient evidence is available on other possible relevant outcomes such as Psychiatric symptoms/psychological distress, Quality of life. Limitations to this review are imposed by the heterogeneity of the trials both in the interventions and the assessment of outcomes. Results of studies were sometimes in disagreement and because of lack of detailed information no meta analysis could be performed to analyse the results related to the outcomes more often reported as positive results in the single studies. Duration of the studies was also too short to analyse other relevant outcomes such as mortality. In order to study the possible added value of any psychosocial treatment over an already effective treatment such as standard MMT, only big multi-site studies could be considered which define experimental interventions and outcomes in the most standardized way as possible.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Psicoterapia
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Transtornos Relacionados ao Uso de Opioides
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Entorpecentes
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
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Prognostic_studies
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Systematic_reviews
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Cochrane Database Syst Rev
Assunto da revista:
PESQUISA EM SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Ano de publicação:
2004
Tipo de documento:
Article