Promote buprenorphine upkeep as an alternative choice to methadone upkeep.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is working to advance hurt discount programming throughout the Iranian jail system, particularly concentrating on people with drug habit. The group promotes a human rights-based, gender-sensitive, public health-centred and evidence-based method, aiming to get rid of stigma, discrimination and violence inside these services.
Iran faces a big drug abuse problem, with a few of the highest charges of opiate use on the planet and a excessive prevalence of amphetamine-type stimulant abuse. In response, opioid substitution remedy (OST) has emerged as a confirmed intervention, changing illicit drug use with physician-prescribed, orally administered opiates corresponding to buprenorphine or methadone. For the previous 20 years, methadone upkeep has been the cornerstone of OST, however the latest introduction of buprenorphine necessitates comparative research to judge its effectiveness on this distinctive setting.
With the help of the UNODC Iran Office, Iran Narcotics Control General Headquarters, Iranian Prison Organization, and the Iranian National Center for Addiction Research (INCAS), which acts because the implementing and technical agent, we carried out a two-day coaching program for analysis assistants to strengthen ongoing efforts to handle drug use points amongst prisoners for the research entitled “A Comparative Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Buprenorphine and Methadone Substitution Therapy in Prisons” funded by a UNAIDS UBRAF grant.
During the coaching program, in-country companions emphasised that the coaching is aligned with the nation’s inclusive coverage, which goals to diversify the therapy portfolio and promote Buprenorphine Maintenance Treatment (BMT) as an alternative choice to Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) inside jail services. The significance of strengthening the experience of execs working with prisoners and facilitating correct information assortment to judge the effectiveness of BMT, thereby having a big affect on the nation’s therapy roadmap, was highlighted.
Alexander Fedurov, UNODC Representative in Iran, expressed his appreciation for conducting this comparative research on the effectiveness of methadone and buprenorphine upkeep therapy in prisons. He famous the significance of this analysis work, because the variety of prisoners benefiting from opioid substitution remedy in Iran is now over 80,000.
The coaching introduced collectively drug use dysfunction consultants from North Khorasan, Kurdistan, Khuzestan and Fars provinces. Topics coated throughout the two-day program included fast HIV testing, evaluation of high-risk behaviors, analysis of high quality of life and therapy satisfaction, and an in-depth overview of the Addiction Severity Index (ASI).