The International journal on drug policy
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Int. J. Drug Policy · Nov 2013
Multicenter Study Observational StudyMethadone treatment improves tuberculosis treatment among hospitalized opioid dependent patients in Ukraine.
Ukraine's volatile syndemics of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV among people who inject drugs (PWIDs) introduces numerous treatment challenges for each condition, including high mortality and development of multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB). ⋯ MMT integrated into inpatient TB treatment significantly improves retention in TB treatment and TB medication adherence among PWIDs. These findings call for policy change to increase the number of MMT sites in TB facilities and make MMT a low-threshold treatment option for opioid dependence in Ukraine.