Methadone Treatment

Perrine Roux, Pharm.D., Ph.D., French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm), has been selected as a NIDA INVEST Drug Abuse Research Fellow. She will work with Sandra D. Comer, Ph.D., Columbia University, to better define the concept of nonadherence to opioid maintenance treatment with buprenorphine/naloxone and to validate a tool to measure nonadherence using a self-administered questionnaire.

The governments of Tanzania and the United States have announced that the first medication- assisted therapy (MAT) program for drug users in sub-Saharan Africa will begin shortly at two sites in Dar es Salaam and one in Zanzibar. Recognizing that high-risk practices related to drug use contribute to HIV transmission, the Tanzania Drug Control Commission (DCC) has promoted and adopted novel and evidence-based interventions to facilitate improved access to services that prevent HIV among drug users.

Welcome to the NIDA International Program E-Learning Series!

The Web guide you are about to enter is part of a planned series of Web-based resources that support the mission of the NIDA International Program, which is to foster international cooperative research and the exchange of scientific information by drug abuse researchers around the globe. NIDA seeks to accomplish this mission by

The Methadone Research Web Guide is an update and revision of Methadone Maintenance Treatment: Translating Research Into Policy (1995) prepared by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) International Program.