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Challenges to implementing opioid substitution therapy in Ukrainian prisons: Personnel attitudes toward addiction, treatment, and people with HIV/AIDS.

TitleChallenges to implementing opioid substitution therapy in Ukrainian prisons: Personnel attitudes toward addiction, treatment, and people with HIV/AIDS.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2015
AuthorsPolonsky, Maxim, Lyuba Azbel, Jeffrey A. Wickersham, Faye S. Taxman, Evgeny Grishaev, Sergey Dvoryak, and Frederick L. Altice
JournalDrug and alcohol dependence
Volume148
Pagination47-55
Date Published2015 Mar 1
ISSN1879-0046
KeywordsAcquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Adult, Attitude of Health Personnel, Behavior, Addictive, HIV Infections, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Opiate Substitution Treatment, Opioid-Related Disorders, Prisoners, Prisons, Ukraine, Young Adult
AbstractUkraine is experiencing one of the most volatile HIV epidemics globally, fueled primarily by people who inject drugs (PWIDs), and a parallel incarceration epidemic. Opioid substitution therapy (OST) is internationally recognized as one of the most effective forms of treatment for opioid dependence and is among the most effective HIV prevention strategies available, yet efforts to adopt it in Ukraine's Criminal Justice System (CJS) have been thwarted.
DOI10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2014.12.008
Alternate JournalDrug Alcohol Depend

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