Evaluation of a Pilot Medication-Assisted Therapy Program in Kazakhstan: Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities for Scaleup

Table 4

Reasons for patient discharge from medication-assisted therapy in Kazakhstan, by treatment site.

	Pavlodar	Temirtau	Ust-Kamenogorsk
	N (%)	N (%)	N (%)
Total number of patients ever enrolled	102	85	78
Total number of patients discharged from MAT	54	50	43
Reasons for discharge from MAT
Criminal charges	5 (4,9)	2 (2,4)	5 (6,4)
Personal life circumstances (voluntary)	18 (17,6)	11 (12,9)	16 (20,5)
Continued breach of MAT program rules	6 (5,9)	16 (18,8)	6 (7,7)
Completion of therapy (after methadone tapering)	20 (19,6)	5 (5,9)	6 (7,7)
Change of country of residence	2 (1,9)	3 (3,5)	9 (11,5)
Inpatient treatment	3 (2,9)	11 (12,9)	0
Death caused by concurrent illnesses	0	2 (2,4)	1 (1,3)