Buprenorphine maintenance versus placebo or methadone maintenance for opioid dependence

RP Mattick, C Breen, J Kimber… - Cochrane database of …, 2014 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Buprenorphine maintenance treatment has been evaluated in randomised
controlled trials against placebo medication, and separately as an alternative to methadone …

Methadone maintenance therapy versus no opioid replacement therapy for opioid dependence

RP Mattick, C Breen, J Kimber… - Cochrane database of …, 2009 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Methadone maintenance was the first widely used opioid replacement therapy
to treat heroin dependence, and it remains the best‐researched treatment for this problem …

An overview of systematic reviews of the effectiveness of opiate maintenance therapies: available evidence to inform clinical practice and research

L Amato, M Davoli, CA Perucci, M Ferri… - Journal of substance …, 2005 - Elsevier
AIM: To summarize the major findings of the five Cochrane reviews on substitution
maintenance treatments for opioid dependence. METHODS: We conducted a narrative and …

GRADE Evidence to Decision (EtD) frameworks: a systematic and transparent approach to making well informed healthcare choices. 1: Introduction

P Alonso-Coello, HJ Schünemann, J Moberg… - bmj, 2016 - bmj.com
Healthcare decision making is complex. Decision-making processes and the factors
(criteria) that decision makers should consider vary for different types of decisions, including …

Long-term exposure to urban air pollution and mortality in a cohort of more than a million adults in Rome

G Cesaroni, C Badaloni, C Gariazzo… - Environmental …, 2013 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Few European studies have investigated the effects of long-term exposure to
both fine particulate matter (≤ 2.5 µm; PM2. 5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) on mortality …

Oral naltrexone maintenance treatment for opioid dependence

S Minozzi, L Amato, S Vecchi, M Davoli… - Cochrane Database …, 2011 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Research on clinical application of oral naltrexone agrees on several things.
From a pharmacological perspective, naltrexone works. From an applied perspective, the …

Psychosocial combined with agonist maintenance treatments versus agonist maintenance treatments alone for treatment of opioid dependence

L Amato, S Minozzi, M Davoli… - Cochrane database of …, 2011 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Maintenance treatments are effective in retaining patients in treatment and
suppressing heroin use. Questions remain regarding the efficacy of additional psychosocial …

Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12‐step programmes for alcohol dependence

M Ferri, L Amato, M Davoli - Cochrane database of systematic …, 2006 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an international organization of recovering
alcoholics that offers emotional support through self‐help groups and a model of abstinence …

Psychosocial and pharmacological treatments versus pharmacological treatments for opioid detoxification

L Amato, S Minozzi, M Davoli… - Cochrane Database of …, 2011 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Different pharmacological approaches aimed at opioid detoxification are
effective. Nevertheless a majority of patients relapse to heroin use, and relapses are a …

Maintenance agonist treatments for opiate‐dependent pregnant women

S Minozzi, L Amato, S Jahanfar… - Cochrane Database …, 2020 - cochranelibrary.com
Background The prevalence of opiate use among pregnant women can range from 1% to
2% to as high as 21%. Just in the United States alone, among pregnant women with hospital …