Dear Dr. MEL, I want to confirm how methadone is used to deal with drug dependence in HK. Could you please help me with it?

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Thank you so much for the reply.

Sure! The outpatient methadone treatment program provides both methadone maintenance and methadone detoxification programs. By blocking their craving for opiate drugs, methadone could help to reduce illicit self-administration of such drugs by opiate abusers. Patients may choose to be maintained on methadone if they are unable to attain total abstinence or to be detoxified through a gradual reduction in the methadone consumed.