September 14, 2010
British National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse Business Plan 2010-2011
England’s National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, a division of the National Health Service, is planning to revise its policies on methadone treatment to focus
on abstinence-focused treatment for opiate addiction. The shift is expected to include limits on how long prisoners can receive methadone treatment while
incarcerated; time limits will also be extended to community-based treatment. New clinical protocols will focus on abstinence as the desired outcome of treatment.
Long-term methadone maintenance treatment will be discouraged, but permitted on a case-by-case basis.
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