Specialists criticise treatment for heroin addiction

Treatment for Persons with Heroin Addiction

Heroin addiction is devastating to both the person addicted and to society. Attempts to treat heroin addiction have proved difficult due to the extreme addictive qualities of the drug. Medication-assisted recovery or pharmacotherapy, such as methadone and buprenorphine, are controversial in that it is providing a medication that has similar qualities of heroin itself. Behavioral treatments alon...

Buprenorphine in The Treatment of Heroin Addiction

Heroin addiction is a significant health and social problem in most countries. A recent estimate is that there were between 15.2-21.1 million people abusing or dependent on opioids. The key determinant of the prevalence of heroin problems in a community appears to be availability. The highest levels of use (in terms of the proportion of the population aged 15-64 years) are found along the main ...

Heroin addiction and pregnancy.

Pregnant heroin addicts tend to be younger than nonaddicted pregnant patients, unmarried or separated from spouses, and a disproportionately large number are members of minority ethnic groups. Heroin addiction during pregnancy is associated with several significant medical and obstetrical complications and may result in both acute and chronic abnormalities in neonates. Malnutrition, venereal di...

Cutaneous clues to heroin addiction.

Heroin addiction--a metabolic disease.

THE METHADONE Maintenance Research Program began three years ago with pharmacological studies conducted on the metabolic ward of the Rockefeller University Hospital. Only six addict patients were treated during the first year, but the results of this work were sufficiently impressive to justify the trial of maintenance treatment of heroin addicts admitted to open medical wards of general hospit...