Methadone
(asked on 15th November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effectiveness of methadone treatment programmes in saving lives.
This question was answered on 29th November 2017
In the 2015 study, Fatal opioid poisoning: a counterfactual model to estimate the preventive effect of treatment for opioid use disorder in England, a research group including Public Health England estimated that the English treatment system prevented an average of 880 deaths each year from opioid-related poisoning between April 2008 and March 2011. A copy of the study is attached.
In the 2015 study, Fatal opioid poisoning: a counterfactual model to estimate the preventive effect of treatment for opioid use disorder in England, a research group including Public Health England estimated that the English treatment system prevented an average of 880 deaths each year from opioid-related poisoning between April 2008 and March 2011. A copy of the study is attached.