Prescribed treatments
SUDs, opioid dependence
Disulfiram or cyanamide were relatively little used in both networks; opiate antagonists were hardly ever used in either health care network; the use of opiate agonists for the treatment of opioid dependence occurred almost exclusively in the addiction network; a low percentage of patients were treated for their SUDs in the mental health network, despite their high prevalence. Psychotropic drugs were used similarly for their treatment in both networks, with considerable use of antipsychotics and frequent prescription of antidepressants and mood stabilizers. There was a very high percentage of patients who were prescribed anxiolytics/hypnotics in both treatment networks. The pharmacological treatments prescribed in the two care networks are summarized in Table Proportionally, women had fewer treatments with agonists and more with antagonists. They had more treatments with anxiolytics and antidepressants. Disulfiram/cyanamide, mood stabilizers, and antipsychotics were prescribed to the same extent as in men. Differences in pharmacological prescriptions by gender are reflected in Table 