The Stigma Paradox in Methadone Maintenance: Naïve and Positive Consequences of a “Treatment Punishment” Approach to Opiate Addiction

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Summary

In examining the literature on methadone, mostly quantitative studies on the treatment's efficacy, I found a lacuna in first-person accounts of the experience of recovering on "the clinic," and this is where the idea emerged for a study on the illness narratives of methamphetamineadone patients.

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2004-11-01
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Methadone, Punishment (psychology), Stigma (botany), Opiate, Addiction

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