Opiate substitution treatment and HIV transmission in people who inject drugs: systematic review and meta-analysis

Category Structured summary of systematic reviews
JournalDatabase of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
Year 2012
CRD SUMMARY: This generally well-conducted review concluded that opiate substitution as maintenance therapy reduced the risk of HIV infection among people who inject drugs. The authors acknowledged the limitations of the evidence, and that high levels of motivation to change behaviour participants of such studies may mean the results were not generalisable. These conclusions are likely to be reliable.
Epistemonikos ID: ff65ef8f2d05c1d80c7a1c2268bed13f5e10c8af
First added on: Jan 13, 2015