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- Title
Assessment of alcohol use among methadone maintenance patients by direct ethanol metabolites and self-reports.
- Authors
Wurst, Friedrich Martin; Dürsteler-MacFarland, Kenneth M; Auwaerter, Volker; Ergovic, Sonja; Thon, Natasha; Yegles, Michel; Halter, Claudia; Weinmann, Wolfgang; Wiesbeck, Gerhard A
- Abstract
Heavy alcohol consumption may accelerate the progression of hepatitis C (HCV)-related liver disease and/or limit efforts at antiviral treatment. As most of the patients in methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) suffer from hepatitis C infection, this study was conducted to identify the alcohol intake among these patients at a Swiss Psychiatric University Clinic by self-reports and direct ethanol metabolites as biomarkers of ethanol consumption.
- Publication
Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research, 2008, Vol 32, Issue 9, p1552
- ISSN
1530-0277
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1530-0277.2008.00724.x