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Treating heroin users with heroin works – EU report

Supervised heroin use has been found to be of more benefit to chronic and ‘untreatable’ heroin users than any other treatment, a new study has found.

Research by the EU drugs agency found that supervised injectable heroin treatment was more effective than other treatments, including methadone,  and led to substantial improvements in the health and well-being of chronic drug users.

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Source: The Journal, 19/04/2012

Posted by Andy on 04/19 at 09:17 PM in
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