Heroin-assisted treatment

Heroin-assisted treatment ( HAT ), or diamorphine-assisted treatment , refers to a type of Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) where semi-synthetic heroin is prescribed to opiate addicts who do not benefit from, or cannot tolerate, treatment with one of the established drugs used in opiate...

Heroin assisted treatment for key health outcomes in people with chronic heroin

Abstract Background and aims: Randomised controlled trials in Europe and Canada have shown that supervised heroin assisted treatment (HAT) is an effective treatment option for people with...

(PDF) Heroin Assisted Treatment - ResearchGate

Chapter PDF Available Heroin Assisted Treatment January 2016 In book: The SAGE Encyclopaedia of Pharmacology and Society Publisher: Sage: New York. Authors: Darren Hill Leeds Beckett...

Heroin Assisted Treatment | Transform

Heroin Assisted Treatment (HAT) involves the provision of medical-grade heroin - also called diamorphine - to registered patients as part of a treatment programme. Patients attend a clinic...

Heroin assisted treatment for opioid-dependence: a randomized controlled trial in germany | European Psyc....

> Heroin assisted treatment for opioid-dependence: a... Access English Français European Psychiatry Article contents Abstract Heroin assisted treatment for opioid-dependence: a randomized...

Middlesbrough Heroin Assisted Treatment scheme to begin - BBC News

A scheme that will see drug addicts given daily doses of medical-grade heroin will begin on Monday. ; Costing £12,000 per person, the scheme in Middlesbrough, on Teesside, will see people take diamorphine twice a day under medical supervision. ; The Heroin Assisted Treatment facility was announced last September but organisers said they had only recently secured the necessary licences. ; Critics have said the scheme would perpetuate addiction.

Fifteen years of heroin-assisted treatment in a Swiss prison—a retrospective cohort study | Harm Reducti....

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Patients’ satisfaction with heroin-assisted treatment: a qualitative study | Harm Reduction Journal | Fu....

Heroin-assisted treatment (HAT) involves supervised dispensing of medical heroin (diacetylmorphine) for people with opioid use disorder. Clinical evidence has demonstrated the effectiveness of HAT,...

Heroin-assisted Treatment (HAT) a Decade Later: A Brief Update on Science and Politics | Journal of Urban....

Since the initial Swiss heroin-assisted treatment (HAT) study conducted in the mid-1990s, several other jurisdictions in Europe and North America have impl

Heroin-assisted treatment in Switzerland: a case study in policy change. - 상세정보 | 인제대학교 의학도서....

and heroin-assisted treatment, in spite of its limitations as an observational cohort study. All necessary steps were taken to proceed from a scientific experiment to a routine procedure....