The complex relation between access to opioid agonist therapy and diversion of opioid medications: a case example of large-scale misuse of buprenorphine in the Czech Republic

• Autores principales: Viktor Mravčík (Autor), Barbara Janíková (Autor), Barbora Drbohlavová (Autor), Petr Popov (Autor), Alessandro Pirona (Autor)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: BMC, 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Materias: article
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Abstract Opioid agonist therapy (OAT) has been available in a standard regime in the Czech Republic since 2000. Buprenorphine is the leading medication, while methadone is available only in a few specialised centres. There is an important leakage of buprenorphine onto the illicit market, and the maj...