Methadone Replacement Therapy Malaysia

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Methadone replacement therapy malaysia. Methadone is a synthetic medicine that has the same effect as drugs that are often abused such as heroin or morphine. Because it is an opiod it can also be abused. Methadone maintenance therapy mmt or methadone replacement therapy mrt is one of the harm reduction programme established by the ministry of health malaysia in october 2005 for opioid abusers or patients who developed opioid dependence. The aim of this program is mainly to prevent blood borne viral infections hiv hepatitis c hepatitis b due to needles sharing methadone replacement therapy takes place when a patient is prescribed with methadone by a medical officer and the consumption is supervised by a pharmacist.

Methadone can only be prescribed by doctor and monitored under medical supervision together with specific counselling sessions. Hence methadone replacement therapy has to be regulated and monitored closely. To examine the 2 year outcomes of this modality in. It is meant to be used as a harm reduction subtance to reduce the risk of infectious disease.

Implementing methadone maintenance treatment in prisons in malaysia jeffrey a wickersham a ruthanne marcus a adeeba kamarulzaman b muhammad muhsin zahari b frederick l altice a b. As example in malaysia methadone is used in drug substitution therapy program. In malaysia heroin is still the main illicit drug used and methadone maintenance treatment mmt has been used since 2005. Yale university school of medicine department of medicine infectious diseases section aids program 135 college street suite 323 new haven ct 06510 2283 united states of america usa.

The commencement of methadone maintenance therapy mmt in 2005 represents a quantum leap in the management of heroin dependence in malaysia. Lot 36 jalan universiti 46200 petaling jaya selangor. This was a cross sectional study conducted in 103 treatment centers between october and december 2014 using a set of standard questionnaires. Methadone is a synthetic opiod used medically as a painkiller and treatment in narcotic addiction.

To evaluate the effectiveness of mmt. Review of methadone maintenance therapy in malaysia 2005 2014 i february 2016 malaysian methadone treatment outcome study mytos isbn.