Name: Heroin Maintenance for Heroin Addicts: Issues and Evidence
Creator: Lorrin M. Koran
Keywords: Heroin Dependence, Substance-Related Disorders, Research, Politics, Legislation, Drug, United Kingdom, United States, Substance Withdrawal Syndrome, 3. Good health, Heroin

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 29 Mar 1973 English Publisher:Massachusetts Medical SocietyJournal:New England Journal of Medicine, volume 288, pages 654-660 (issn: 0028-4793, eissn: 1533-4406,

Authors: Lorrin M. Koran;

doi: 10.1056/nejm197303292881305

pmid: 4568989

Heroin Maintenance for Heroin Addicts: Issues and Evidence

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Abstract American society is again debating whether to allow maintenance doses of heroin in the treatment of heroin addicts. Carefully designed clinical research on the safety and efficacy of heroi...

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Heroin Dependence, Substance-Related Disorders, Research, Politics, Legislation, Drug, United Kingdom, United States, Substance Withdrawal Syndrome, Heroin, Government Agencies, Public Opinion, Drug and Narcotic Control, Humans, Ethics, Medical, Crime

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