About 120 000 people accept the methadone outpatient service per day in China

About 120,000 people accept the methadone outpatient service per day in China
News from China News Agency Beijing on December 1 (reporter Zeng LiMing) Nearly 120,000 people receive treatment in the methadone clinic every day in China Mainland at present, will reduce heroin and consume 22.4 tons in 2009 alone, will reduce 3700 new people infected with HIV. This it is " methadone, rapid advance of China, keep, treat achievement and challenge that face " that China deliver today by Center for Disease Prevention and Control that report the information revealed. This report which is delivered " international epidemiology magazine " published today claims, in order to lighten drug addict's reliance on heroin, control the spread of AIDS in the addicts, China made" abused the opium community medicine of person who becomes addiction of material and maintained the working scheme of treatment " in 2004, launch the methadone to keep treating the pilot project in the addicts of some areas; The county that demands to be registered on the books the drug addict more than 500 people sets up medicines to keep treating the clinic, and plan to offer 1500 pieces of methadone and keep treating the clinic in the whole country and treat about 300,000 drug addicts. The report reveals, only set up 8 pieces of clinic of methadone in the whole country in 2004, expanded to 58 in 2005, increased to more than 300 in 2006, already there are 692 at present. The national methadone outpatient service patient was fewer than 10,000 people in 2006, had already treated about 300,000 patients 5 years later; Realize strange land methadone take medicine treatment, reduce the intersection of crowd and AIDS this travel not merely gradually already at the same time, also reduced drugs danger. The methadone keeps treating or take the methadone oral liquid for a long time through longer period heroin curing drug addict becomes the addiction, comprehensive measure of cooperating with the psychotherapy, behavior to intervene at the same time etc., in order to achieve the goal of reducing drugs danger and demand finally. " international epidemiology magazine " is the academic magazine of authority which Britain published, " China's AIDS preventing and controlling policy is implemented " for Chinese monograph Israel introduced this month It is a theme, served as and edits by director of Chinese Center for Disease Prevention and Control Wang Yu, publish including the intersection of " policy, AIDS preventing and controlling of China, develop ",etc. and 12 scientific papers. (End)

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