Table 1 Patients’ experienced benefits and challenges of being in HAT
From: Patients’ satisfaction with heroin-assisted treatment: a qualitative study
Benefits | Challenges |
|---|---|
Access to medical heroin (medical) | Treatment scheme (configurational) |
• Reduced stress and financial pressure | • Lack of medications |
• New routines and hope | • Too intense |
Patient–clinician relations (relational) | Clinic rules (configurational) |
• Respectful engagements | • Unfounded rules |
• Being heard | • Negative influence on relation with clinicians |
Supporting environment (configurational) | Downtime and uncertainties (configurational and relational) |
• Opportunities for psychosocial assistance | • Too much downtime |
• Safer usage setting | • Uncertainties about project’s future |