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Health, Social and Economic Costs of Complex Treatment of Heroin Addiction

Tsvetelina Tarpomanova

Abstract

The use of drugs is a significant health and social problem worldwide. It gets increasingly complicated due
to the emerging new challenges that give rise to concerns about public health. Besides the controlled use for medical
purposes, around 250 million, (5.7%) of the world population aged 15-64 years, use illegal drugs.
The opioid addiction is a mental and behavior disorder with complex bio-psycho-social genesis and chronic recidivistic
course. One of the treatment methods is the so-called medication-assisted treatment that is performed by use of opiate
agonists (methadone, etc.). Practically, this treatment means administration of the relevant medicine products in
combination with a wide range of medical and rehabilitation services to alleviate the adverse medical, psychological
and physiological effects that are inherent of opioid addiction.
It is presented a good practice of a treatment methadone program by describing the organization of the Methadone
Treatment Program at the Mental Health Center of Varna. It is presented an assessment of the effectiveness of the
Program and its dynamics over the years as an expression of the health, social and economic costs of complex treatment
of heroin addiction

Keywords

Methadone treatment; assessment of the effectiveness; health; social and economic cost

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14748/hem.v71i1.6173

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