• J Subst Abuse Treat · Jul 2012

    Factors associated with methadone treatment among injection drug users in Bangkok, Thailand.

    • Nadia Fairbairn, Kanna Hayashi, Karyn Kaplan, Paisan Suwannawong, Jiezhi Qi, Evan Wood, and Thomas Kerr.
    • Urban Health Research Initiative, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, 608 - 1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6Z 1Y6. n.fairbairn@gmail.com
    • J Subst Abuse Treat. 2012 Jul 1; 43 (1): 108-13.

    AbstractLittle is known about the characteristics of injection drug users (IDU) who take methadone treatment in Thailand. We examined prevalence and correlates of methadone treatment among a community-recruited sample of IDU in Bangkok, Thailand. Among 273 participants, 143 (52.4%) reported accessing methadone treatment within the previous 6 months. Older age (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 1.90, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.10-3.30) and more than weekly midazolam injection (AOR = 1.85, 95% CI = 1.04-3.29) were positively associated, whereas alcohol use (AOR = 0.34, 95% CI = 0.18-0.63) and noninjection methamphetamine use (AOR = 0.49, 95% CI = 0.29-0.85) were negatively associated with methadone treatment. In subanalyses, 98.6% of IDU on methadone continued to inject drugs, and the most common reason for stopping methadone was becoming incarcerated (49%). Evidence-based addiction treatment in the form of methadone maintenance therapy, with attention paid to concomitant midazolam injection in this setting, should be implemented.Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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