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Objective: To investigate the prevalence of alcohol use and related influencing factors among the patients with methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) in Shanghai, and to provide information for the alcohol intervention in the future. Methods: A total of 837 MMT patients were investigated and evaluated by General Situation Questionnaire, Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, Patient Health Questionnaire-9, Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7, General Well-being Schedule. According to whether drinking or not in the past year, the two groups were divided into the non-drinking group and the drinking group. T-test, Chi-square test and multivariate Logistic regression analysis were used to detected between two groups. Results: 30.9% of the patients had drinking behavior in the past year, 13.8% of them had problem drinking behavior. The main factors affecting patients' drinking behavior were sex (P=0.029), age of first drug use (P=0.005), drinking before taking heroin (P=0.000) and drinking when taking heroin (P=0.000). Conclusion: In Shanghai, alcohol consumption is generally prevalent among MMT patients who lack awareness of the dangerous of drinking. In the future, targeted intervention measures should be taken to reduce the harm of drinking among MMT patients.
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Objective To explore the efficacy of zolpidem in improvement of sleep quality of patients received methadone maintenance treatment (MMT).Methods 80 cases of MMT with insomnia were randomly divided into the study group (administered with zolpidem)and the control group (administered with placebo), 40 cases in each group.Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI)and treatment emergent symptoms scale (TESS)were assessed before treatment and at the weekend of 4th,8th after treatment.Results The scores of PSQI in the study group were much lower than those in the control group (t =-2.517,P =0.014;t =-3.611,P =0.000),while the effective rate in the study group was significantly higher than that in the control group (χ2 =4.949,P =0.026). Conclusion Zolpidem could improve the sleep quality of patients with MMT.
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Objective To study the status of continued heroin/amphetamine abuse among MMT outpatients and related factors.Method Urine analysis was conducted for randomly sampled MMT outpatients,and the results were recorded and analyzed by considering the basic conditions of the tested subjects.Results Of the 179 sampled MMT outpatients,39.1%(70/179) admitted continuing to use drugs,of whom 16.2%(29/179) used heroin,18.4%(33/179) used ice,and 4.5%(8/179) used heroin and methamphetamine in combination;gender difference and regular methadone administration were two factors which were related to the continued drug abuse among them.There were no obvious differences between the outpatients who abused heroin and those who abused ice.Conclusion Serious attention should be given to multiple drug abuse among MMT outpatients and to the risk of new emerging drugs.