Comparative Evaluation of PUSPENs and C&Cs

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 2015-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This observational study compares the health and social outcomes between opioid-dependent individuals who are either recently released from a compulsory drug detention center (CDDC) or recently discharged from a voluntary treatment center (VTC) providing methadone maintenance therapy, in Malaysia.

• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Malaya
• Collaborators: Burnet Institute; Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH); National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA); The University of New South Wales; University of Florida; World Bank; Yale University
• Treatments: Methadone

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Meets Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-IV criteria for opioid dependence

• Physically and psychologically capable of understanding and undergoing informed consent process

• Within 90 days of release or discharge and intending to return to Klang Valley region

• For VTC arm, came to the C&C to start MMT