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P-30 - Clinical Correlations hiv Infection in Patients Maintaining Substitution Treatment With Methadone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2020

E. Gorzelańczyk ,
M. Ziółkowski ,
S. Biedrzycki ,
J. Feit  and
E. Nowińska
E. Gorzelańczyk
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa
M. Ziółkowski
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry Nursing, Collegium Medicum of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Bydgoszcz
S. Biedrzycki
Affiliation:
Provincial Hospital for Neurotic and Mentally III, Swiecie
J. Feit
Affiliation:
Non Public Health Care Center Sue Ryder Home
E. Nowińska
Affiliation:
Department of Theoretical Basis of Bio Medical Sciences and Medical Informatics, Collegium Medicum of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Bydgoszcz, Poland

Abstract

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Introduction and objectives

Opiate dependence is a significant risk factor for HIV infection.

Aims

An assessment of differences between opiate addicts with and without HIV infection.

Method

171 opiate dependent patients treated with methadone were asked about: length of dependence, age of onset of opiate dependence, dosage of methadone, effects of methadone on interviewed subjects and HIV infection.

Results

In our sample 72 (42%) subjects had HIV infection (HIV+) and 99 (58%) subjects had not HIV infection (HIV-). Comparison of 99 HIV (-) patients with 72 HIV (+) patients revealed that in HIV (+) group there were statistically significantly more women (40 vs. 25%), patients were older (39 vs. 36 years old), had longer length of dependence (22 vs. 16 years), had longer time of maintained methadone treatment (63 vs. 26 months). It was also found that HIV (+) patients had earlier age of onset of opiate dependence than the patients in HIV (-) group (18 vs. 19 years old, p = 0,058).

Conclusion

Our research may suggest that HIV infection had correlation with the course of methadone substitution treatment of opiate dependence.

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European Psychiatry , Volume 27 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 20th European Congress of Psychiatry , 2012 , pp. 1
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2012
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