1999Medical prescription of narcoticsRequires access

Prescriptions of Narcotics for Heroin Addicts

A. Uchtenhagen, A. Dobler-Mikola, Thomas Steffen, R. Gutzwiller, Richard Bl�ttler, S. Pfeifer

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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 3 years on a cohort of 1,035 chronic heroin addicts who had failed in drug-free or methadone substitution treatments and who were pre

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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 3 years on a cohort of 1,035 chronic heroin addicts who had failed in drug-free or methadone substitution treatments and who were pre

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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 3 years on a cohort of 1,035 chronic heroin addicts who had failed in drug-free or methadone substitution treatments and who were pre

Key concepts: Heroin, Medical prescription, Addiction, Medicine, Psychiatry, Pharmacology, Drug

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