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To obtain more information about the treatment effects in different
scenario's for the missing endpoint-assessments, the robustness of the results
was analyzed. The purpose of this analysis was to investigate whether the -
possibly - observed difference in effectiveness between the treatment conditions
would hold if the missing endpoint-assessments would be dealt with using an
even more conservative scenario than LOCF, which would reduce the contrast between
the experimental and control condition. To this end, the robustness of the findings
was investigated in a worst-case scenario, in which the patients with missing
endpoint-assessments were considered as non-responders in the co-prescribed
heroin condition, and as responders in the methadone alone condition.