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International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(6):1586-1587; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl248
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2006; all rights reserved.

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Commentary: Decline in methadone-related deaths probably relates to increased supervision of methadone in UK

Deborah Zador*, Soraya Mayet and John Strang

National Addiction Centre (Institute of Psychiatry and the Maudsley), 4 Windsor Walk, Camberwell, London SE5 8AF, UK.

* Corresponding author. E-mail: Deborah.Zador@slam.nhs.uk

Accepted 21 October 2006

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Morgan et al.1 report a number of important findings, but of greatest interest to providers of drug treatment services is probably that methadone-related deaths dramatically declined from 1997 onwards. Deaths per thousand methadone treatment patient-years varied little between 12 and 13/year between 1993 and 1997 but then plunged by three-quarters between 1997 and 2004 to a low of 3.1 deaths per thousand in 2004. Furthermore, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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