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Document 0348
DOCN M9610348
TI The demedicalization of methadone maintenance.
DT 9601
AU Rosenbaum M; Institute for Scientific Analysis, San Francisco,
California; 94123, USA.
SO J Psychoactive Drugs. 1995 Apr-Jun;27(2):145-9. Unique Identifier :
AIDSLINE MED/96053691
AB The institution of methadone maintenance as a treatment modality for
heroin addiction in the mid-1960s was part of the growing medicalization
of social problems in the United States. The definition of deviance as
sickness rather than badness set the stage for America's first
harm-reduction strategy. By the 1970s methadone maintenance was seen as
a way to reduce drug-related crime, and federally funded programs
proliferated. Accompanying methadone's phenomenal expansion was
increased regulation, bureaucratization, and criticism. The early 1980s
brought the Reagan era, fiscal austerity, the new just say no abstinence
morality, and demedicalization of methadone maintenance. By the time
needle-sharing was recognized as a major contributing factor in the
spread of HIV, methadone had been transformed into a largely
fee-for-service, short-term, begrudgingly tolerated treatment modality.
Ironically, while other countries were able to use methadone to curb the
spread of AIDS, the United States refused to facilitate its expansion,
and in fact impeded it. To the frustration of proponents and consumers,
this original harm-reduction tool, with the potential to impact the
epidemic, was demedicalized and remains marginalized.
DE Health Policy Heroin Dependence/HISTORY/*REHABILITATION History of
Medicine, 20th Cent. Human Legislation, Medical
Methadone/HISTORY/*THERAPEUTIC USE Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. United
States HISTORICAL ARTICLE JOURNAL ARTICLE REVIEW REVIEW, TUTORIAL
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).