Risk-factors for methadone-specific deaths in Scotland’s methadone-prescription clients between 2009 and 2013

Highlights • Powerful analysis of a national cohort’s 362 methadone-specific deaths. • Scottish cohort of 33,128 methadone-prescription clients in 2009–2013. • Steeper age-gradient than for all drugs-related deaths. • No gender differential in the hazard of methadone-specific deaths. • Increased haz...

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Published in:Drug and alcohol dependence 2016-10, Vol.167, p.214-223
Main Authors: Gao, Lu, Dimitropoulou, Polyxeni, Robertson, J. Roy, McTaggart, Stuart, Bennie, Marion, Bird, Sheila M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Age Factors
Age-group
Analgesics, Opioid - poisoning
Analgesics, Opioid - therapeutic use
Cause of Death
Daily-dose
Deaths
Drugs-related
Female
Full Length
Gender
Heroin Dependence - rehabilitation
Humans
Male
Methadone - poisoning
Methadone - therapeutic use
Methadone-specific
Middle Aged
Opiate Substitution Treatment
Prescribed-methadone
Psychiatry
Quantity
Quintiles
Risk Factors
Scotland
Suicide
Young Adult
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Summary:Highlights • Powerful analysis of a national cohort’s 362 methadone-specific deaths. • Scottish cohort of 33,128 methadone-prescription clients in 2009–2013. • Steeper age-gradient than for all drugs-related deaths. • No gender differential in the hazard of methadone-specific deaths. • Increased hazard at the highest quintile for quantity of methadone prescribed.
ISSN:0376-8716
1879-0046
DOI:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.08.627