A Narrative Research of the Lived Experience of Heroin Addictted Clients Taking Methadone Maintenance Therapy / 海洛因成癮者接受美沙冬替代治療生活經驗之敘事研究

碩士 / 南華大學 / 生死學系碩士班 / 106 / The research aims to understand the life experiences of the cases receiving Methadone Maintenance Therapy, and to explore the mental process of the drug addictive patients and the treatment of the drug addictive symptoms. The study adopted purposeful sampling, and the subjects were two patients with drug addiction continuing to receive Methadone Maintenance Therapy for more than eight years in a general hospital. The research adopted Lieblich, Tuval-Mashiach, & Zilber (1998) qualitative methods and a holistic-content analysis. Inviting drug addictive patients as the interviewees, by collecting their personal drug addictive narrative experiences in abstinence and treatment, the contents of the interviews were compiled in the form of interview recordings and verbatim scripts, and data analysis was conducted. The analysis summarized the facts of the cases after receiving methadone replacement therapy as below:
(1) the improvements the overall life quality of the patients receiving methadone maintenance therapy such as: daily routine, improvement of physiological functions, workability, and interpersonal relationships.
(2) family support was a key element of the continuous drug withdrawal treatment.
(3) the easily accessibility of Methadone and emetic administration of medications would contribute to the persistence of drug addictive behavior.
(4) by combining psychosocial and drug treatments, it was helpful for drug addictive treatment.
  It is expected that the results of this study will be helpful for the follow-up researchers or clinical practitioners to think about how to combine the effective factors and implement the best for the addictives, and to adopt the references in domestic drug treatment.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/106NHU00672017
Date January 2018
CreatorsHSU, CHI-YEN, 許綺宴
ContributorsTSAI, CHANG-HSIUNG, 蔡昌雄
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format91

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