Cost-effectiveness of center-based compulsory rehabilitation compared to community-based voluntary methadone maintenance treatment in Hai Phong City, Vietnam

Highlights • The first study comparing methadone treatment with compulsory detention in Asia. • Methadone treatment more effective and less costly than compulsory detention. • Over 3 years, methadone treatment cost US$4,108 less for one participant. • Over 3 years, an additional 344 drug-free days g...

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Published in:Drug and alcohol dependence 2016-11, Vol.168, p.147-155
Main Authors: Vuong, Thu, Shanahan, Marian, Nguyen, Nhu, Le, Giang, Ali, Robert, Pham, Khue, Vuong, Thu T.A, Dinh, Thuy, Ritter, Alison
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Bootstrap method
Communities
Compulsory rehabilitation
Cost analysis
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Cost-effectiveness
Data processing
Donors
Drug abuse
East and Southeast Asia
Economic evaluation
Female
Funding
Health care expenditures
Heroin
Heroin dependence
Heroin Dependence - economics
Heroin Dependence - rehabilitation
Humans
Male
Methadone
Methadone - economics
Methadone - therapeutic use
Methadone treatment
Middle Aged
Narcotics
Narcotics - economics
Narcotics - therapeutic use
Opiate Substitution Treatment - economics
Prospective Studies
Psychiatry
Public health
Regression analysis
Rehabilitation
Retrospective Studies
Substance abuse treatment
Substance Abuse Treatment Centers - economics
Treatment Outcome
Vietnam
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Summary:Highlights • The first study comparing methadone treatment with compulsory detention in Asia. • Methadone treatment more effective and less costly than compulsory detention. • Over 3 years, methadone treatment cost US$4,108 less for one participant. • Over 3 years, an additional 344 drug-free days gained for a methadone participant.
ISSN:0376-8716
1879-0046
DOI:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.09.008