Work Predictors of Lapse in Patients under Treatment of ?Methadone Maintenance Therapy

摘要

Background: Addiction to narcotics ?can cause serious problems and ?monetary losses. Therapeutic ?success can be predicted ?through identifying lapse risk ?factors.?Objective: Determining Job Risk ?Factor of Lapse.?Methods: This was a cross ?sectional study on 351 addicts ?visiting five methadone clinics. A ?Data collection sheet consisting ?of questions on demographic ?and job information was filled up ?through direct interviews. ?Information relating to lapse in ?the first month was analyzed.?Results: The mean (SD) age of ?the participants was 40(12) ?years; of them, 74% were ?employed, of whom 34% had ?lapsed. A relationship was ?noticed between education ?qualification (secondary school ?compared with higher and lower ?education) and lapse (p = .04), ?and also between type of drug ?abuse (amphetamine) and lapse ??(p = .001).?Conclusion:?? ?? Lapse was more ?dependent on type of drug abused, ?and employment had a protective role, ?with no correlation with the type of ?job and other job conditions. Non-?work factors mediated/suppressed the ?role of occupational conditions.?