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For Drug Addicts Heroin Therapy may Be Affordable and Effective

by Jagadeswaran on  January 11, 2008 at 7:59 PM Drug News
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For Drug Addicts Heroin Therapy may Be Affordable and Effective
Researchers from Center for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto and University of Victoria, British Columbia finds that, Heroin assisted treatment can be feasible and effective for addicts.


Various experts have been extensively debating whether heroin should be prescribed to addicts who are difficult to treat.

Jurgen Rehm from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto and Benedikt Fischer from the University of Victoria, British Columbia agreed with the fact that maintenance treatment with heroin was pertinent to the heroin misusers under several circumstances.

They said various trials in Switzerland, the Netherlands and Germany, have shown that the treatment was feasible and helpful for those resistant to treatment and is even cost effective.

Swiss studies have shown that mortality among patients in heroin assisted maintenance programmes is low, and lower than for patients in other maintenance programmes, reports British Medical Journal.

Heroin has always been an alternative treatment for heroin misusers for several decades but still remains controversial practice in UK.

A Scottish study showed that 29.4 pct of addicts who received residential rehabilitation were abstinent for at least 90 days compared with only 3.4pct receiving methadone maintenance.

“We see no convincing reason why heroin assisted maintenance treatment should not be part of a comprehensive treatment system for opioid dependence,” wrote the authors.

However, Neil McKeganey, Professor of Drug Misuse Research at the University of Glasgow disagreed and stated that prescribing heroin to heroin addicts will be treating the effects of misuse and not the addiction.

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Arnold(Guest)

11/11/2008

Nice blog.

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05/16/2008

There are many people who are unaware that the can even take their lives in the long run. People take drugs or alcohol just for enjoyment. There is a need for drug education which will give them knowledge about harmful effects of these substances.

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