Up to 80% of people addicted to not be treated due to lack of medicines

Reduce the spread of HIV, reduce drug-related crime

Since Methadone therapy started simultaneously deployed in Haiphong and HO CHI MINH CITY in October, to present new 4.2008 near 15000 people treated in methadone facility 25 in 14 province. According to the experts, who have had a positive effect from this program. The study of nearly 1000 people are treated at 6 campuses, after 24 months, the number of people infected with HIV are just 4 cases. Meanwhile, if not methadone treatment, with the rate of new infections in intravenous drug users about 13%, respectively will have 130 new infections.

In addition to effective preventive HIV virus infection, this therapy also has impact on maintaining Security and socialorder. Criminal rate in addicts inject drugs previously up to 60-70%. But the County of Le Foot (Haiphong) after 1 year of methadone, crimes related to theft in the markets Railways and 70% reduction of Czech Free BV. In can tho city, the police said, breaking the law in relation to drug use reduced 30-40%. Attached to it is the improvement of the proportion employed increased from 30% to 60% after 1-2 years. When family income increases, the family conflict stress decrease.

Mr. Pham Duc Manh, Deputy Director of the Bureau of HIV/AIDS (Ministry of health) recounts the case of a mother he met in Peace-new place methadone is deployed almost 1 year. The mother said that her son, the former has almost 40 years of October would also guest-only, claiming she stole 50,000 VND drug-buying sting. Recently, he bought for her son for the first time was a package of spinach and invite parents to eat. Mother touched, felt like his son was born again.

To date, only reach 70% maximum

According to article 31 of the Decree 96, if the County/District has over 250 people injecting drugs in the need methadone treatment facility established in it. With this regulation, there were 50 province plans to build the point of drinking the methadone treatment needs of people injecting drugs today. However, the expansion of treatment facilities is closely dependent on methadone resources reserves. Two donors provided the drug is now the Fund Pepfar and the Global Fund only guarantees provided are about 27000 for patients. Meanwhile, Vietnam's needs until 2015 is going to treat the drug substance detoxification by methadone for 80000 inhabitants.

He Strongly for or of Methadone, although domestic: was licensed in circulation but are to you 3-4, 2014, when the purchase offers and are made according to the bidding, can be taken out of use in the methadone treatment facility today. The level offers also just secured 70% of demand.

It is known that the drug methadone of the pharmaceutical INVESTMENT Jsc Vidipha is the form of siro imported raw materials, mixing in the water, about 700,000 VND/liter. Compared with the money buy from import this price lower than methadone 30%.

According to statistics, since methadone therapy was implemented, the number of people adhere to treatment reached 90%. After methadone facility in the form of the first society in Hai Phong, in which people drink to close a portion of the cost, Lao Cai has just put into operation more into the country's second point of the middle of October.

Methadone is a type of legal drug (not the Detox drugs), oral form used instead the drug type drug. Methadone is not injecting, do not increase the dose, has the effect in 24 h should only used 1 time/day. Methadone does not create the stimulus, excitement is high as heroin. Addicts when Methadone users still have the pleasure but, should this be called alternative treatments. When no longer suffer the unpleasant, the patient can labor and normal activities. However, Methadone is only works with people addicted to heroin, not work with synthetic drug addicts like ecstasy, drugs.=