Initialization of Methadone in Primary Care, Randomized Intervention Research for Preventing HCV Transmission Practices
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2011-12-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
The rapid scale up of opioid substitution treatment (OST) for drug users mainly achieved
through the possibility of prescribing buprenorphine in primary care has been successful in
reducing HIV prevalence among drug users but still inadequate for reducing the spread of HCV.
To date, methadone in France can only be initialised in drug centres but GPs can prescribe
methadone after stabilisation of dosages.
This study was born as an answer to a request from the French Minister of Health that
supports the initialisation of methadone in primary care in order to improve coverage by OST
(now 70%) in drug users.
Phase:
Phase 3
Details
Lead Sponsor:
French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis