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Key: | Protein | Mutation | Event | Anatomy | Negation | Speculation | Pain term | Disease term |
Several factors affect the extent to which prisons provide OST, including the varied health policies of prisons and the difficulties in employing adequate numbers and quality of prison staff [26]. | |||||||||||||||
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SETTING: Purposively selected OST sites in Asia (China, Indonesia, Thailand), Eastern Europe (Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine), the Middle East (Iran) and Australia. | |||||||||||||||
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Patients who reported no injection and no OST over the whole study period were considered as 'abstinent' and used as a reference category. | |||||||||||||||
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Examples of successfully implemented OST programmes exist, and these point to effective strategies and tactics for establishing OST programmes elsewhere.
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An international survey reported in 2009 that at least 37 countries offered OST in community settings but not in prison settings [22]. | |||||||||||||||
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Stakeholders should be informed that an OST programme must provide for the supply of OST medications. | |||||||||||||||
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Techniques and resources to gain support for instituting an OST programme and to disseminate information in support of such a programme include initiating and maintaining contact with decision-making politicians, the media, the professional public and non-governmental organisations such as human rights agencies, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe Health in Prison Project. | |||||||||||||||
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Prison staffs often express a concern that an OST programme introduces the potential risk for internal diversion of maintenance drugs [17]. | |||||||||||||||
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In a 2003 survey studying organization of OST provision in 22 French prisons [42], in more than half prisons (12/22), the prison staff (especially nurses) was aware of injection practices among prisoners. | |||||||||||||||
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Buprenorphine was the main opioid of abuse before the OST admission in both groups. | |||||||||||||||
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Thus the patients feel that in regards to memory function their quality of life does not improve during the OST. | |||||||||||||||
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