Journal article
Sociodemographic characteristics of patients with children in a methadone maintenance program: a cross-sectional study
Abstract
BackgroundEver-increasing numbers of opioid use disorder (OUD) in Canada has created the recent opioid crisis. One common treatment for OUD is methadone maintenance treatment (MMT). Various factors, including being a parent which entails specific stressors, may increase susceptibility to negative treatment outcomes. This study aims to investigate differences between OUD patients with and without children in socio-demographic and clinical …
Authors
Luo C; Sanger N; Zielinski L; Bhatt M; Shahid H; Shams I; Mouravska N; Luetam S; Hudson J; Thabane L
Journal
Harm Reduction Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1,
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
December 2019
DOI
10.1186/s12954-019-0283-9
ISSN
1477-7517