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01-02-2004 | Poster presentation
Anesthesia-assisted opiate detoxification (AAOD) for heroine addicts during 24-hour ICU admission: complications and results for opiate abstinence at 1-year follow-up
Author:
C de Jong
Published in:
Critical Care
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Special Issue 1/2004
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Excerpt
(1) To list addiction-related health problems in a group of 67 patients addicted to heroin and/or methadone, who were treated with AAOD during 24-hour ICU admission. (2) To evaluate complications of AAOD on the day of treatment and during the first week after AAOD. (3) To evaluate the effect of our post-AAOD treatment programme, consisting of naltrexone combined with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for 1 year after AAOD, on abstinence from opiates, on employment, on training and education, and on criminal behaviour 1 year after the AAOD treatment. …