(c) Increase in the number of people in selected treatment services and duration of their retention in treatment

Treatment for illicit drug users is varied, ranging from methadone maintenance (or long term detoxification), detoxification, therapeutic communities, drug free counselling and Ayurvedic medicine to acupuncture.

Methadone has a half life of 10 25 hours, with a mean of 15 however, after long term maintenance this rises to 13 55 hours, with a mean of 30.

Improving community treatment literacy to create demand for treatment and to support the capacity of families and community members to support those in treatment is essential for long term sustainability.

extended treatment and rehabilitation of patients after they have been released from the hospital.

Meanwhile, an indispensable role in maintaining levels of adherence to treatment is played by treatment preparedness programmes, through which people living with HIV and other community members serve as treatment supporters to help educate those about to initiate therapy and to provide support to help patients remain in treatment over the long term.

Some Governments have reported using methadone maintenance in their treatment programmes.

Overwhelmingly, both for withdrawal and long term maintenance, methadone is currently the main drug used by physicians to treat heavily dependent persons in developed countries.

Methadone maintenance programmes vary according to admission criteria, length of treatment, dosage, combination with other types of treatment etc.

General education sanatorium schools, sanatorium boarding schools, and sanatorium children's homes are being set up for children and teenagers who need long term treatment.

15. Gene therapy, for which patients sometimes require care for long periods, also raises a problem.

In addition to the need for psychological assistance and treatment, the physical injuries often need complex long term treatment.

Requests the Secretary General to appoint a special envoy in order to, inter alia, sustain the political will of the international community to support medium and long term rehabilitation, reconstruction and risk reduction efforts .

This one is a third lung, a pharmaceutical device for long term asthma treatment I designed to help kids to follow the treatment.

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(l) Introduction of benefits in kind and financial benefits to be provided in case of home care (for persons in severe need of long term care).

I danced through chemo and radiation cycles, much to the dismay of my oncologist.

In 1995, Latvia launched the DOTS (directly observed short course therapy) strategy, which ensures that medications are taken under the strict and direct supervision of medical personnel.

In the United States, LAAM was formally approved as a drug for the maintenance treatment of opioid dependence in 1993.

If it was difficult to give proper treatment in an ordinary detention centre, or if a special or a long term treatment was required, a patient would be sent to special detention institutions where sufficient medical treatment was available.

Centres for family support Co operation of the Centre for the Treatment of Addicted People with the families of the people under treatment.

The conclusions were that quot for patients who require long term maintenance treatment, many will do well on buprenorphine quot 61 but that it was not suitable for all patients, particularly those with a high level of tolerance.

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The first group received second line chemotherapy, which is expected to double the life expectancy, versus no treatment at all.

DOTS Directly observed short course treatment strategy

Drug free treatments include therapeutic communities and out patient drug free treatment, where counselling, group therapy, information or support may be provided.

Requests the Secretary General to appoint a special representative in order to, inter alia, sustain the political will of the international community to support medium and long term rehabilitation, reconstruction and risk reduction efforts led by the Governments of affected countries at all levels

Serious illness can strike anyone, and seriously ill people, as a rule, do not earn much money. The longer the seriously ill are untreated, the more costly their eventual treatment and maintenance become.

aCumulative number of people served by the maintenance programme since its inception.

As a result, it was envisaged that the industry would not be viable in the long run.

As regards the complainant's daughter, the medical certificate stated that she had fallen into a serious and threatening state and that she would need a long period of psychotherapeutic treatment.

This makes it difficult to maintain six Trial Chamber Sections on a permanent basis.

What we saw in that trial is that that the life expectancies of both groups so the chemotherapy treated group and the Tumor Treating Field group was the same.

However, in order to sustain long term economic growth, active development strategies are required.

If treatment adherence is poor, resistant HIV strains can emerge and lead to treatment failure.

Traditionally, heroin maintenance was defined as bona fide medical treatment if addicts who had failed to respond to treatment were able to live relatively normal lives when provided with a regular supply of the drug.

To that end, the heads of the five United Nations peacekeeping and political missions in West Africa meet periodically, most recently in Monrovia in December 2004.

There has been a substantial long term increase in admissions for the treatment of cannabis abuse among the adolescent population in the United States.

All treatment programmes of the Centre for the Treatment of Addicted People provide parallel programmes of family support, addressing people of the immediate family environment of the addicted (parents, brothers and sisters, children, companions husbands), which have about the same duration as the corresponding treatment programmes.

44. The three experimental studies show similar results methadone substitution is more efficient than placebo treatment or no treatment at all, particularly with regard to reduction of heroin consumption and involvement in criminal activity, as long as the patients are in long term treatment.

We're now learning to identify the cancer stem cells and identify those as targets and go for the long term cure.

A new vision of health care, which has grown out of the US managed care movement, has recently heightened the relevance of embracing a comprehensive approach to treating these conditions. Originally intended to cut costs, the goal now is to provide more appropriate care for a new era, the premise being that long term care for many diseases requires forms of medical organization that are different from those geared toward acute care.

It didn't work very well on the schizophrenics, but it was pretty clear in the '30s and by the middle of the '40s that electroconvulsive therapy was very, very effective in the treatment of depression.

In our view, the special representative will play a crucial role in sustaining international attention and political will for the long term effort.

A recent detailed study on the effectiveness of methadone maintenance supported the findings of a large number of already conducted studies, concluding that quot methadone maintenance treatment is effective in reducing drug abuse, crime, and other deviant behaviour among patients who stay in treatment. quot 51