Study, Commentary Examine Methadone Therapy Use In Sub-Saharan Africa

Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: Opioid substitution therapy successful, and critical, in first mainland sub-Saharan Africa program
Antigone Barton, writer and editor of “Science Speaks” and senior communications officer at the Center for Global Health Policy, discusses an article and commentary published in Clinical Infectious Diseases that address methadone maintenance therapy use in sub-Saharan Africa (7/14).

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