"Waiting for the next one". The history of first mobile methadone clinic ('Methadone Bus") in Amsterdam (1979)
Date Created & Temporal Coverage:
2014
Language: · English
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This article analyses the reasons behind the introduction in 1979 of low-threshold methadone maintenance in Amsterdam, and desribes the ways in which methadone maintenance treatment was put into practice, from the late 1970s onwards.
Title
"Waiting for the next one". The history of first mobile methadone clinic ('Methadone Bus") in Amsterdam (1979)
Author/Creator
Gemma Blok
Date Created
2014
Temporal Coverage (Time Period)
1979 – 1990
Abstract
This article analyses the reasons behind the introduction in 1979 of low-threshold methadone maintenance in Amsterdam, and desribes the ways in which methadone maintenance treatment was put into practice, from the late 1970s onwards.
Subject
methadone maintenance
Source
This is the English translation of a book chapter from: Gemma Blok, Achter de voordeur. Sociale psychiatrie vanuit de GGD Amsterdam in de twintigste eeuw (Amsterdam University Press 2014).
Language
English
Rights Holder
Gemma Blok (copyrights)
Narcotic Archive Item-ID
Permalink
https://narcotic-archive.org/s/archive/item/2685
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