Table 3.
Attitudes towards methadone maintenance treatment (MMT).
| Agreed with the following statement: | OverallN (%) | Interest in Receiving Methadone
|
p-valuea | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | No | |||
| N = 85 (42.5%) | N = 115 (57.5%) | |||
| Methadone therapy is the best way to treat opioid addiction | 151 (75.5) | 77 (90.6) | 74 (64.3) | <0.001 |
| Being on methadone therapy would improve the quality of my life | 146 (73.0) | 77 (90.6) | 69 (60.0) | <0.001 |
| Methadone therapy is only replacing one addiction for anotherb | 149 (74.5) | 67 (78.8) | 82 (71.3) | 0.228 |
| Methadone therapy is bad for a person’s healthb | 100 (50.3) | 25 (29.8) | 75 (65.2) | <0.001 |
| Being on methadone therapy would help me avoid becoming imprisoned | 140 (70.0) | 71 (83.5) | 69 (60.0) | <0.001 |
| People should try to get off of methadone therapy as soon as they can | 143 (71.5) | 62 (72.9) | 81 (70.4) | 0.698 |
| Being on methadone therapy would keep me from injecting | 156 (78.0) | 75 (88.2) | 81 (70.4) | 0.003 |
| Methadone therapy encourages people to use more of other drugsb | 92 (46.2) | 34 (40.5) | 58 (50.4) | 0.164 |
| People look down on those in methadone therapyb | 64 (32.2) | 22 (26.2) | 42 (36.5) | 0.123 |
| Doctors who prescribe methadone treat addicts poorlyb | 35 (17.6) | 13 (15.3) | 22 (19.3) | 0.463 |
| My religious beliefs do not permit me to use methadone as a treatment for my drug addictionb | 53 (26.5) | 16 (18.8) | 37 (32.2) | 0.034 |
a
P-value for χ2 test for categorical variables.
b
Reversed for mean score calculation.