Resources
This collection of resources consists of advocacy resources, clinical guidance, legal/policy resources, research evidence, training materials / curricula, and technical guidance for reviewing and changing policies and practices to increase access to medicines for pain / palliative care and medication assisted therapy (MAT). We have consulted with and collected resources from experts in the fields of pain management / palliative care and HIV/AIDS / MAT to find examples of best policy and guidance documents for each field. DCAM’s aim is that this website is the beginning of an ever-expanding central repository for global information on access to opioid medications for pain management and MAT to serve as an information hub for advocates around the world. To send suggestions for resources we could add to this collection, send a message on our Contact page.
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Opioid Substitution Therapy in Resouce-Poor Settings
An article describing the need for better prevention of HIV transmission among and from injecting drug users in resource-poor settings... -
Opioid Substitution Therapy in Resource Poor-Settings
An article describing the need for better prevention of HIV transmission among and from injecting drug users in resource-poor settings. ... -
Methadone Maintenance Program Opens in Tanzania
A recent New York Times article by Donald McNeil, Jr., describes the opening of the first methadone maintenance program in Tanzania, o... -
Treating Drug Addicts Helped Curb AIDS Cases in Iran, April 2010
An Associated Press story from April, 2010 about Iran's model methadone clinics and needle exchange programs for drug addicts followin... -
Implementing methadone medical maintenance in community-based clinics: disseminating evidence-based treatment
Methadone medical maintenance (MMM) is an effective intervention that minimizes the demands of opioid agonist treatment without compromis... -
Case study: Accessible primary health care—A foundation to improve health outcomes for people who inject drugs
Injecting drug users (IDUs) represent a large part of the population with HIV globally, however, IDUs continue to have less access to HIV... -
HIV risk behaviors during pharmacologic treatment for opioid dependence: A comparison of levomethadyl acetate, buprenorphine, and methadone
The efficacies of three opioid substitution medications for reducing HIV risk behaviors in opioid-dependent patients were assessed in a r... -
Buprenorphine maintenance versus placebo or methadone maintenance for opioid dependence ( Review)
Background. Methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) is a long term opioid replacement therapy, effective in the management of opioid depend... -
Methadone maintenance therapy versus no opioid replacement therapy for opioid dependence (Cochrane Review)
Methadone maintenance treatment can keep people who are dependent on heroin in treatment programs and reduce their use of heroin. Methado... -
Course Reversal: Poland Moving From "Zero Tolerance" Toward Eased Drug Laws
After five years of tough new laws aimed at reducing drug use in Poland, the Polish government appears headed for a change of course. In ...
