These drugs are often called as club drugs in western societies. Ĭhina recently experienced a significant increase in the use of new-type drugs, which refer to a type of drugs receiving popularity in a relatively short time as compared to opium and heroin. Nevertheless, many MMT patients continue using heroin while in treatment.
There has been a growing body of literature indicating that MMT is effective in reducing heroin use, drug-related criminal activities, and HIV transmission as well as improving social well-being. In order to address the growing IDU-driven HIV epidemic, the methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) was initiated as a pilot program in 8 clinics in 2004 in China and scaled up to 756 clinics nationwide cumulatively treating more than 384,500 drug users with 208 450 clients still receiving treatment by the end of 2012. By the end of 2011, approximately 780,000 people were estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS nationwide, with 28.4% of infections attributed to IDU. Injection drug use (IDU), particularly heroin injection, contributes substantially to the spread of the HIV epidemic in China. JJF201016 to Yingying Ding).Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. XBR2011043 to Na He KBF201232 to Yingying Ding) and the Junior Faculty Award of Fudan University (grant no. 2012ZX10001001-004 to Na He) and Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau (grant no. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are creditedĭata Availability: All relevant data are within the paper.įunding: This study was supported by China National Major AIDS Research Project (grant no. Received: ApAccepted: JPublished: July 21, 2015Ĭopyright: © 2015 Wang et al. PLoS ONE 10(7):Įditor: Wenzhe Ho, Temple University School of Medicine, UNITED STATES (2015) Illicit Heroin and Methamphetamine Use among Methadone Maintenance Treatment Patients in Dehong Prefecture of Yunnan Province, China. Citation: Wang R, Ding Y, Bai H, Duan S, Ye R, Yang Y, et al.
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