Accidental Overdosing in Patients with Take-Home Methadone – A Case Series
Methadone maintenance therapy is administered at designated centers in India as “daily observed treatment” regimen. During the COVID-19 pandemic, guidelines were relaxed, and take-home methadone was allowed for 5–7 days. We discuss three cases of accidental methadone overdose among the patients who...
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| author | Anshul Sharma Sidharth Arya Gunjan Chadha Rajiv Gupta |
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| description | Methadone maintenance therapy is administered at designated centers in India as “daily observed treatment” regimen. During the COVID-19 pandemic, guidelines were relaxed, and take-home methadone was allowed for 5–7 days. We discuss three cases of accidental methadone overdose among the patients who were on take-home dispensing. Among three cases, overdose was experienced by the patient himself in one case, while in the second one, it was by 2-year-old child of the patient, and in the third one, by the patient’s wife which proved fatal. Increasing number of treatment centers is likely to take up take-home policies owing to the ease and comfort of the patients. There is an urgent need to develop interventions which can be useful in supervising take-home dispensing and reducing the potential overdosing incidents. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ebb352970e6344309de5332c3cf37f3a2025-02-10T10:35:51ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsAnnals of Indian Psychiatry2588-83582025-01-0191818210.4103/aip.aip_156_23Accidental Overdosing in Patients with Take-Home Methadone – A Case SeriesAnshul SharmaSidharth AryaGunjan ChadhaRajiv GuptaMethadone maintenance therapy is administered at designated centers in India as “daily observed treatment” regimen. During the COVID-19 pandemic, guidelines were relaxed, and take-home methadone was allowed for 5–7 days. We discuss three cases of accidental methadone overdose among the patients who were on take-home dispensing. Among three cases, overdose was experienced by the patient himself in one case, while in the second one, it was by 2-year-old child of the patient, and in the third one, by the patient’s wife which proved fatal. Increasing number of treatment centers is likely to take up take-home policies owing to the ease and comfort of the patients. There is an urgent need to develop interventions which can be useful in supervising take-home dispensing and reducing the potential overdosing incidents.https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/aip.aip_156_23covid-19methadonemethadone maintenance treatmentopioid substitution therapyoverdose |
| spellingShingle | Anshul Sharma Sidharth Arya Gunjan Chadha Rajiv Gupta Accidental Overdosing in Patients with Take-Home Methadone – A Case Series Annals of Indian Psychiatry covid-19 methadone methadone maintenance treatment opioid substitution therapy overdose |
| title | Accidental Overdosing in Patients with Take-Home Methadone – A Case Series |
| title_full | Accidental Overdosing in Patients with Take-Home Methadone – A Case Series |
| title_fullStr | Accidental Overdosing in Patients with Take-Home Methadone – A Case Series |
| title_full_unstemmed | Accidental Overdosing in Patients with Take-Home Methadone – A Case Series |
| title_short | Accidental Overdosing in Patients with Take-Home Methadone – A Case Series |
| title_sort | accidental overdosing in patients with take home methadone a case series |
| topic | covid-19 methadone methadone maintenance treatment opioid substitution therapy overdose |
| url | https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/aip.aip_156_23 |
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