Providing supervised medical-grade heroin to heavy users can reduce harms

(RAND Corporation) Some nations -- but not the US -- provide heroin-assisted treatment and supervised consumption sites as approaches to reduce the harms caused by addiction to opioids. A new study finds that the experiences in other parts of the work find that providing supervised access to medical-grade heroin to people whose use continues after trying multiple traditional treatments has been successful in other countries, and should be piloted and studied in the US.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news