This paper examines the changes and advances in research and clinical practice and
examines the role of treatment structure and programme characteristics in the delivery of …

Background Several types of medications have been used for stabilizing heroin users:
Methadone, Buprenorphine and levo‐alpha‐acetyl‐methadol (LAAM.) The present review …

Aims. To review the available knowledge about the diversion to the illicit market of drugs
prescribed to drug users in treatment in the United Kingdom, and to identify aspects of the …

Aim. To assess the feasibility of a randomized clinical trial of supervised injectable versus
oral methadone maintenance and to assess medium‐term treatment outcomes. Design …

In recent years, methadone has been the treatment of choice for heroin dependency. This
approach has had considerable success, but as a result other treatment options have been …

Objective To assess the feasibility of offering the choice of prescribing injectable heroin
(diamorphine) or injectable methadone to opiate‐dependent injecting drug users and to …

The provision of prescribed heroin to chronic heroin-dependent individuals failing other
treatments has been supported during the last 70 years on the ground that the first goal of …

The prescription of heroin (diamorphine) for the management of heroin dependence is a
controversial treatment approach that was limited to Britain until the 1990s. Since then a …

Whilst unsupervised injectable methadone and diamorphine treatment has been part of the
British treatment system for decades, the numbers receiving injectable opioid treatment (IOT) …

Aims The aims of this study were to determine the prevalence of methadone syrup injecting
in Adelaide, South Australia and to characterize methadone injectors, including their heroin …