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Treatment readiness, attitudes toward, and experiences with methadone and buprenorphine maintenance therapy among people who inject drugs in Malaysia

Vijay A 1 , Bazazi AR 2 , Yee I 3 , Kamarulzaman A 4 , Altice FL 5

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  • 1 Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, AIDS Program, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
  • 2 Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, AIDS Program, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; Yale University School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, CT, USA
  • 3 Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 4 Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, AIDS Program, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 5 Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, AIDS Program, 135 College Street, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; Yale University School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, CT, USA; Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Electronic address: Frederick.Altice@Yale.edu
J Subst Abuse Treat, 2015 Jul;54:29-36.
PMID: 25841703 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsat.2015.01.014

Abstract

Little is known about attitudes toward and experiences with opioid maintenance therapy (OMT) among people who inject drugs in Malaysia, a country where people who inject drugs comprise 1.3% of the adult population.

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