Andre LEMAITRE

• Professor Emeritus at University of Liège

Homeless young adults with problematic psychoactive substance (PS) use face multiple challenges that compromise their well-being. Despite these challenges, few of them access psychosocial services and rather rely on personal resources to promote their own well-being. However, literature has been largely centered on their difficulties, leaving their...

Background: the concept of recovery capital refers to the sum of resources that a person has available to initiate and continue a recovery process. this concept has not been greatly explored with people with persistent substance use disorder (sUD), whose recovery is often quite long. Method: We conducted 19 qualitative interviews with 19 people (...

This study aimed to describe and understand the links between musical activities (i.e. listening, playing, attending festive events, belonging to music-based communities) and the addictive trajectory of homeless young adults who experience problematic psychoactive substance (PS) use. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with 15 hom...

Purpose: In 2013, during a recent heroin-assisted treatment trial, participants in heroin-assisted treatment (HAT) decreased significantly more their street heroin use than participants in oral methadone treatment. After the trial, HAT was discontinued. To examine whether the treatment benefits were sustained three months after the trial, the use...

De Belgische Federale Politieraad legde in juni 2009 haar evaluatierapport neer inzake “10jaar politiehervorming”. Het rapport bevatte in algemene zin een gematigd positieve beoordeling van het functioneren van de politie tijdens het decennium na de politiehervorming van 1998, zij het dat het rapport een vrij lange waslijst aan verbeterpunten bevat...

Bij de regeringswissel in 2014 legde de ministeriële stuurgroep haar rapport neer over de toekomst van de politie in 2025. In het verlengde hiervan namen diverse universitaire equipes en studiecentra het initiatief om het rapport onder de aandacht te brengen en kritisch door te lichten. Dit boek bevat het rapport van de stuurgroep, maar tevens...

[en] Background: Heroin-assisted treatment (HAT) can improve the condition of heroin addicts who are resistant to other treatments. However, in a new HAT trial in Belgium, fewer subjects than expected were included. Aim: Our research team explored the reasons given by heroin users in explaining why they did not want to participate. Methods: In 2011...

Introduction: Une fraction des personnes en traitement par méthadone continue leur usage d'héroïne de rue. Pour aider ces personnes, la Belgique a testé un nouveau traitement par diacétylmorphine (DAM - héroïne pharmaceutique) en le comparant au traitement par méthadone. Dans ce modèle de traitement, la DAM est prescrite à des personnes sévèrement...

Heroin-assisted treatment (HAT) can improve the condition of heroin addicts still using street heroin after a methadone treatment. In Belgium, a new trial compared the efficacy of a HAT to existing methadone maintenance treatment. In this randomised controlled trial, HAT was limited to 12 months. Participants were assessed every 3 months. They were...

Heroin (or diacetylmorphine), a depressant nervous central system, is a semi-synthetic opiate. Its main adverse effect, respiratory depression, can lead to death, especially after an intravenous injection. By loss of tolerance, an overdose can be lethal following heroin use after a period of abstinence (voluntary or not). Mortality rate among heroi...

[en] Summary : Heroin (or diacetylmorphine), a depressant of the\nervous central system, is a semi-synthetic opiate. Its main\adverse effect, respiratory depression, can lead to death, especially\after an intravenous injection. By loss of tolerance, an\overdose can be lethal following heroin use after a period of\abstinence (voluntary or not). Mort...

[en] Background: Heroin-assisted treatment (HAT) can improve the condition of heroin addicts resistant to other treatment. A new trial compared HAT and methadone treatment with HAT limited to 12 months in order to assess its feasibility and efficacy in Belgium.\Methods: TADAM (Treatment Assisted by Diacetylmorphine) was an open label randomised con...

Background : TADAM est une étude contrôlée randomisée comparant un traitement par héroïne (HAT) avec des traitements par méthadone existants. Ce projet est toujours en cours mais nous disposons déjà de données sur les patients au moment de leur inclusion. Nous analysons leur profil, particulièrement leurs caractéristiques criminologiques, et nous l...

Accessible summary For some heron addicts, heroin‐assisted treatment is more efficacious than methadone treatment. Seven European countries have implemented outpatient centres where patients self‐administer pharmaceutical heroin under close supervision. Nurses deliver pharmaceutical heroin and supervise administration. The two main concerns are ove...

Before implementing the TADAM project in Belgium (a heroin-assisted treatment trial), our research team studied the trials in other countries. Since 1994, six randomised controlled trials have been developed using the same treatment model of heroin-assisted treatment (HAT). Each trial concluded that HAT had more efficacy than methadone treatment. W...

Background: TADAM, a randomised controlled trial of heroin-assisted treatment, will begin in Liège, Belgium, in 2010. This trial will compare two groups of patients: one in a heroin-assisted treatment and the other in oral methadone treatment. In this new medical treatment, the criminal behaviour of the patients will also be assessed. It is one of...

Before implementing the TADAM project in Belgium (a heroin-assisted treatment trial), our research team studied the trials in other countries. Since 1994, six randomised controlled trials have been developed using the same treatment model of heroin-assisted treatment (HAT). Each trial concluded that HAT had more efficacy than methadone treatment. W...

[en] Before implementing the TADAM project in Belgium (a heroin-assisted treatment trial), our research team studied the trials in other countries. Since 1994, six randomised controlled trials have been developed using the same treatment model of heroin-assisted treatment (HAT). Each trial concluded that HAT had more efficacy than methadone treatme...

as a one year project, but after the first year the decision was taken to prolong the research in order to allow for a better foundation of the results. The second part of the research started 1 December 2005 and the project was concluded on 30 November 2006 I. OBJECTIVES The current study is aimed at the different alternative sanctions and measure...

Cette etude exploratoire se penche sur la problematique de victimisation des PME. Basee sur l’organisation de tables rondes, la tenue d’entretiens en face a face et la realisation d’une enquete aupres de 124 PME de Belgique francophone, la recherche degage les types de victimisation et leur importance, les modes de prevention et l’approche de la ge...

Seit ihrer Entstehung versuchen Versicherungsgesellschaften, Risiken zu minimieten. Diese Tendenz kann insbesondere in den Bereichen Diebstahlsversicherungen sowie Brandversicherungen beobachtet werden. Mit dem Ziel des Erhalts und der Verbesserung der finanziellen Ertrage haben Versicherungsgesellschaften eine Praventionspolitik verfolgt, die sich...

Le paysage du supportérisme à risque en Belgique francophone est depuis quelques années en pleine recomposition. Sous l'influence de divers facteurs – impact de la « loi football », améliorations de l'infrastructure, travail des stewards ou des fan coaches, perfectionnement policier –, la violence dans les stades a sensiblement reculé et les incide...

Déviance et Société publie des articles originaux sur des recherches concernant les normes et les déviances, des débats (prises de position contrastées sur des problèmes d'actualité) et des actualités bibliographiques (analyse thématique de l'état des travaux relatifs à un sujet déterminé).

'Déviance et Société' analyse, à travers les courants de recherche les plus récents, des phénomènes de société tels que l’insécurité, les drogues, la délinquances, la prostitution, la corruption, la criminalité organisée les peines privatives de liberté, etc. Ainsi, sur la base d’une culture de coopération scientifique internationale, &ap...