Definition
These data items are used in conjunction to determine:
- the number of prison entrants who have been on, or are currently on, an opioid pharmacotherapy treatment program; and
- the type of opioid pharmacotherapy treatment program a prison entrant has been on, or is on currently.
Metadata items in this Data Set Specification
Below is a list of all the components within this Dataset Specification.
Each entry includes the item name, whether the item is optional, mandatory or conditional and the maximum times the item can occur in a dataset.
If the items must occur in a particular order in the dataset, the sequence number is included before the item name.
| Reference | Data Element | Data Type | Length | Inclusion | # |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Person—type of opioid pharmacotherapy treatment, code N
Specific Information:
This data element occurs twice: once for past treatment and once for current treatment.
Conditional Inclusion:
Conditional on the respondent indicating that they are currently on, or have been on a pharmacotherapy for opioid dependence. |
- | - | conditional | 2 |
Comments
Guide for use:
Opioid pharmacotherapy treatment (OPT) is a form of treatment for heroin or opiate dependence using prescribed opioid agonists, which have some properties similar or identical to those of heroin and morphine, including the effect on the brain, which alleviate withdrawal symptoms and block the craving for illicit opiates. The most common form of opioid pharmacotherapy treatment is methadone maintenance treatment. However, buprenorphine is also quite common in some countries (Kastelic et al. 2008).
The OPT program cluster comprises three data elements which provide information on a person's current and past OPT programs:
Person—previous opioid pharmacotherapy treatment program indicator, yes/no code N
Person—current opioid pharmacotherapy treatment program indicator, yes/no code N and
Person—type of opioid pharmacotherapy treatment, code N.
| OPT program | Methadone | Methadone | Other | Other |
| Current | Previous | Current | Previous | |
| Y/N | Y/N | Y/N | Y/N | |
| Y/N | Y/N | Y/N | Y/N | |
| Never |
References
Related content
| Relation | Count |
|---|---|
| As a numerator in an Indicator | 0 |
| As a denominator in an Indicator | 0 |
| As a disaggregation in an Indicator | 0 |