Many researchers believe that methadone maintenance therapy is an essential component of treatment but say that, for a variety of reasons, it is often not readily available to addicts.
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MMT ( methadone maintenance therapy ) is prescribed to individuals who wish to abstain from illicit drug use but have failed to maintain abstinence from opiates for significant periods.
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Maintenance therapy with the drug ( versus intermittent or sporadic therapy ) lessens the likelihood of developing antibodies to infliximab which are known to reduce the efficacy of the drug.
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Another group of researchers looked at patients with depression who were in remission and undergoing maintenance therapy and found that homework compliance did not correlate with treatment outcomes in this sample, either.
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Competition in NSCLC : There are currently two products approved as maintenance therapy following treatment of inoperable locoregional Stage III NSCLC with induction chemotherapy, Transgene s TG-4010 in Phase 2 / 3.
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The group report said a large drug trial is underway to determine if long-term maintenance therapy with interferon alone can prevent progression of cirrhosis or development of liver cancer among chronically infected patients.
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A 3-year trial following persons receiving maintenance therapy after an acute psychotic episode found that 33 % obtained long-lasting symptom reduction, 13 % achieved remission, and only 27 % experienced satisfactory quality of life.
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Its increasing application in treating lupus nephritis has demonstrated more frequent complete response and less frequent complications Further work addressing maintenance therapy demonstrated mycophenolate superior to cyclophosphamide, again in terms of response and side-effects.
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PARAMOUNT found that maintenance therapy with pemetrexed for patients with advanced non-squamous NSCLC was an effective and well-tolerated treatment option in those patients who had not had progress after initial therapy with pemetrexed plus cisplatin.
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This growing scrutiny already is heating up disagreements between therapists and insurers over how much therapy patients need, particularly about whether depressed or suicidal patients require " maintenance therapy " after a crisis has passed.
