Number of patients in long-term pharmacological opioid maintenance treatment

Number of patients in long-term pharmacological opioid maintenance treatment – number of patients who have been treated in long-term pharmacological opioid maintenance treatment with methadone or buprenorphine in the reference year.

A form “Information about mental and behavioural disorders due to psychoactive substance use included in Official Program of Statistics”.

Regulation of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 720 of November 27, 2018 "Rules on standard forms for official statistics in the field of health care", Annex 4.

Information is published according to Regulation of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 645 of November 14, 2023 "Official Statistics Programme for 2024.–2026".

Health Statistics Database Link

Statistical Yearbook of Health Care in Latvia (2008 - 2018) Link

The Centre for Disease Prevention and Control of Latvia

Anita Maurina

Head of the Register Supervison Unit

Phone Number: +371 67387665

Creation date of metadata: 02.09.2019.

Last updated: 09.06.2022.