"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)
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https://narcotic-archive.org/s/archive/item/2685
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