Outpatient vs hospital methadone detoxification: an experimental comparison

This study compares the effectiveness and cost of hospital narcotic detoxificationand outpatient narcotic detoxification using methadone. Forty heroin addicts seeking narcotic withdrawal were rando...

Evaluation of the 21-day outpatient heroin detoxification

There is a paucity of studies in the literature documenting failure rates of outpatient detoxification from heroin. This study reports on the results of the 21-day ambulatory treatment program at t...

Outpatient alcohol detoxification: initial findings on 564 patients

The authors report on a large-scale outpatient alcohol detoxification program, presenting a clinical rationale for outpatient detoxification, describing the program method, and giving initial evalu...

Clonidine in outpatient detoxification from methadone maintenance

Inpatient narcotic detoxification with clonidine hydrochloride has been used since 1978. Outpatient withdrawal, potentially more useful, has not been adequately studied. This report describes a dou...

Outpatient Detoxification of the Addicted or Alcoholic Patient

Outpatient detoxification of patients with alcohol or other drug addiction is being increasingly undertaken. This type of management is appropriate for patients in stage I or stage II of withdrawal...

Outpatient detoxification of the alcoholic

of outpatient treatment of the patient with the alcohol... of outpatient treatment for the alcohol withdrawal syndrome are discussed. It is concluded that outpatient treatment of the...

Comparative effectiveness and costs of inpatient and outpatient detoxification o

We compared the effectiveness, safety, and costs of outpatient (n = 87) and inpatient (n = 77) detoxification from alcohol in a randomized, prospective trial involving 164 male veterans of low soci...

Using Buprenorphine for Outpatient Opioid Detoxification

Open Access Published by De GruyterSeptember 1, 2007 Using Buprenorphine for Outpatient Opioid Detoxification James J. Manlandro From the journal Journal of Osteopathic Medicine https...

Comparative Effectiveness and Costs of Inpatient and Outpatient Detoxification of Patients with Mild-to-M....

We compared the effectiveness, safety, and costs of outpatient (n = 87) and inpatient (n = 77) detoxification from alcohol in a randomized, prospective trial involving 164 male veterans of low soci...

Randomized, placebo-controlled pilot trial of gabapentin during an outpatient, b

10-day outpatient detoxification from buprenorphine. Participants were inducted onto buprenorphine sublingual tablets during Week 1, were randomized and inducted onto gabapentin or placebo...