A clinical trial was conducted in the Netherlands to evaluate the effect of medical co-prescription of heroin and methadone on mental and physical health and social functioning of chronic treatment-resistant heroin-dependent patients
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patients to any degradation products after inhaling volatilized heroin, especially because they were obtained from a controlled clinical trial using pharmaceutical heroin, eliminating the possible influence of impurities, diluents, and adulterants present in street heroin.
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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 ...
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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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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