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Methadone is an opioid, like heroin or opium. Methadone maintenance treatment has been used to treat opioid dependence since the 1950s. The opioid dependent patient takes a daily dose of methadone as a liquid or pill. This reduces their withdrawal symptoms and cravings for opioids.

Methadone is addictive, like other opioids. However, being on methadone is not the same as being dependent on illegal opioids such as heroin:

• It is safer for the patient to take methadone under medical supervision than it is to take heroin of unknown purity.
• Methadone is taken orally. Heroin is often injected, which can lead to HIV transmission if needles and syringes are shared.
• People are heroin dependent often spend most of their time trying to obtain and use heroin. This can involve criminal activity such as stealing. Patients in methadone do not need to do this. Instead, they can undertake productive activities such as education, employment and parenting.

Methadone has been included on the World Health Organization’s List of Essential Medicines. This highlights its importance as a treatment for heroin dependence.

There has been a great deal of research on MMT. This research has found that

• MMT significantly reduces drug injecting;
• because it reduces drug injecting, MMT reduces HIV transmission;
• MMT significantly reduces the death rate associated with opioid dependence;
• MMT reduces criminal activity by opioid users; and
• Methadone doses of greater than 60mg are most effective.¹⁵

In closed settings, MMT should be available to patients who have been receiving MMT in the community and wish to continue this treatment in the closed setting, and patients with a history of opioid dependence who wish to commence MMT. Patients should receive MMT for the entire duration of their detention in the closed setting. This ensures the maximum benefits of the treatment are obtained.