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Prescription of Narcotics for Heroin Addicts : Main Result of the Swiss National Cohort Study
Uchtenhagen, Ambros. Prescription of Narcotics for Heroin Addict: Main Result of the Swiss National Cohort Study (Medical Prescription of Narcotics, Vol. 1). S. Karger Publishing. July 1999.
 This is the first volume of the long awaited research report on a much discussed study on the prescription of heroin and other narcotics to chronic heroin addicts in Switzerland. Data were collected over a period of three years on a cohort of 1,035 chronic heroin addicts who had failed in drug-free or methadone substitution treatments and who were prescribed heroin, morphine or methadone inb the framework of a comprehensive care program. According to the findings of the study, heroin maintenance can be considered feasible and has a positive effect on both patients and their social environment due to an improvement in health and social status of the patients as well as significant decrease in drug-related delinquency
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