When the eagle flies above the storm, he is in a sense overcoming it. But he does so in a most interesting way. He uses the strength of the storm to rise above it.
The research into hepatitis C treatment for people on methadone has, among. the many encouraging conclusions, included: â¢ The success rate of hepatitis C treatment for people on methadone is. similar to that of people who are not taking methadone; â¢ Interferon (used in monotherapy and combination therapy) does not.
Cure rates approached 100% after 6 months of treatment in patients whose hep C was harder to treat, often because their livers had already been scarred by the disease, a condition called cirrhosis. The drug is approved to treat chronic hepatitis C genotype 1, the most common type of infection.