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Heroin Addiction and Related Clinical Problems: 2002, 04, 1 (pages: 25 - 28)

1995-2001 programme evaluation of the A-center for treatment of addicts consuming prohibited drugs at Maribor, Slovenia

Pisec A.

Summary: A study covering six years of treatment at our centre was dedicated to 570 patients addicted to prohibited (because illegal) drugs; those patients were enrolled in the period April 1995 - April 2001. Group A results are those for 284 addicts treated with methadone, while those for group B refer to the comprehensive treatment outcomes for all 570 addicts enrolled there in that period. Patients in group A had an average age of 26 years, and an average daily methadone dose of 80 mg of methadone, the following infections were recorded: (i) 21 patients (7.4%) had the hepatitis B virus, (ii) 105 (36.9%) had the hepatitis C virus, and (iii) no patients ( 0%) had the HIV virus . For 16 patients (5.6%) the results are unknown.