Prescription of heroin to treatment resistant heroin addicts: Heroin handouts are flawed policy
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Medical prescription of heroin to treatment resistant heroin addicts: two randomised controlled trials.
OBJECTIVE To determine whether supervised medical prescription of heroin can successfully treat addicts who do not sufficiently benefit from methadone maintenance treatment. DESIGN Two open label randomised controlled trials. SETTING Methadone maintenance programmes in six cities in the Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS 549 heroin addicts. INTERVENTIONS Inhalable heroin (n = 375) or injectable ...
متن کاملSupervised co-prescription of heroin to treatment-resistant heroin addicts is more effective than treatment with methadone alone.
van den Brink W, Hendriks VM, Blanken P, et al. Medical prescription of heroin to treatment resistant heroin addicts: two randomised controlled trials. BMJ 2003;327:310. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
متن کاملOpiate Addicts ́ Attitudes Towards Heroin Prescription
Introduction: The competence of opiate addicts to give a valid consent to heroin prescription (HP) has been doubted in principle under the assumption that the pathological urge to use heroin would prevent them from reasonably weighing the pros and cons of HP. This study was done to test whether opiate addicts have a differentiated attitude towards HP which would be a basis for an individual dec...
متن کاملOutcome of long-term heroin-assisted treatment offered to chronic, treatment-resistant heroin addicts in the Netherlandsadd_2754
Aims To describe 4-year treatment retention and treatment response among chronic, treatment-resistant heroindependent patients offered long-term heroin-assisted treatment (HAT) in the Netherlands. Design Observational cohort study. Setting and intervention Out-patient treatment in specialized heroin treatment centres in six cities in the Netherlands, with methadone plus injectable or inhalable ...
متن کاملOutcome of long-term heroin-assisted treatment offered to chronic, treatment-resistant heroin addicts in the Netherlands.
AIMS To describe 4-year treatment retention and treatment response among chronic, treatment-resistant heroin-dependent patients offered long-term heroin-assisted treatment (HAT) in the Netherlands. DESIGN Observational cohort study. SETTING AND INTERVENTION Out-patient treatment in specialized heroin treatment centres in six cities in the Netherlands, with methadone plus injectable or inhal...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.229