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June 05, 2005
Heroin prescription 'cuts costs'
There are strong reasons to support the practice of prescribing heroin to drug misusers, researchers claim. A University of Amsterdam team says the treatment is cost-effective, even though it is expensive. The British Medical Journal study found the cost to health services was offset by savings linked to crime reduction.
Reference:
Cost utility analysis of co-prescribed heroin compared with methadone maintenance treatment in heroin addicts in two randomised trials, Marcel G W Dijkgraaf, Bart P van der Zanden, Corianne A J M de Borgie, Peter Blanken, Jan M van Ree, Wim van den Brink
BMJ 2005:1297
Posted by Emma at June 5, 2005 09:00 AM
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