peer reviewedBefore implementing the TADAM project in Belgium (a heroin-assisted treatment trial), our research team studied the trials in other countries. Since 1994, six randomised controlled trials have been developed using the same treatment model of heroin-assisted treatment (HAT). Each trial concluded that HAT had more efficacy than methadone treatment. We analysed those trials in order to find on which levels patients in a HAT treatment are expected to improve. Improvements appeared after at least six months on the level of street heroin use, (physical and mental) health and criminal behaviour. In the longer term, the continuation of treatment had positive but limited effects on the social level. Due to his higher cost, this treatmen...
peer reviewedBackground: Heroin-assisted treatment (HAT) can improve the condition of heroin addicts...
Heroin-assisted treatment has been examined broadly in Switzerland since 1994 within the context of ...
peer reviewedThe objective of the present study was to verify if severe physical health problems fre...
Background/Aims: Heroin-assisted treatment (HAT) can improve the condition of heroin addicts still u...
Objective The aim of our research was to assess the feasibility and efficacy of a treatment assiste...
Background: A fraction of patients receiving methadone treatment pursues their use of street heroin...
A new heroin-assisted treatment, TADAM, has begun in Liège, Belgium. With the number of methadone pa...
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether supervised medical prescription of heroin can successfully treat add...
Addiction to heroin is a common problem in many countries around the world. Nowadays, addiction has ...
Background Some heroin addicts persistently fail to benefit from conventional treatments. We aimed t...
Is heroin-assisted treatment effective for patients with no previous maintenance treatment? Results ...
BACKGROUND Supervised injectable heroin (SIH) treatment has emerged over the past 15 years as an int...
Background/Aims: Until now, the medical prescription of diamorphine (heroin) has been suggested as s...
Heroin-assisted treatment (HAT) is a solution for improving the condition of treatmentresistant her...
Background: Supervised injectable heroin (SIH) treatment has emerged over the past 15 years as an in...
peer reviewedBackground: Heroin-assisted treatment (HAT) can improve the condition of heroin addicts...
Heroin-assisted treatment has been examined broadly in Switzerland since 1994 within the context of ...
peer reviewedThe objective of the present study was to verify if severe physical health problems fre...
Background/Aims: Heroin-assisted treatment (HAT) can improve the condition of heroin addicts still u...
Objective The aim of our research was to assess the feasibility and efficacy of a treatment assiste...
Background: A fraction of patients receiving methadone treatment pursues their use of street heroin...
A new heroin-assisted treatment, TADAM, has begun in Liège, Belgium. With the number of methadone pa...
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether supervised medical prescription of heroin can successfully treat add...
Addiction to heroin is a common problem in many countries around the world. Nowadays, addiction has ...
Background Some heroin addicts persistently fail to benefit from conventional treatments. We aimed t...
Is heroin-assisted treatment effective for patients with no previous maintenance treatment? Results ...
BACKGROUND Supervised injectable heroin (SIH) treatment has emerged over the past 15 years as an int...
Background/Aims: Until now, the medical prescription of diamorphine (heroin) has been suggested as s...
Heroin-assisted treatment (HAT) is a solution for improving the condition of treatmentresistant her...
Background: Supervised injectable heroin (SIH) treatment has emerged over the past 15 years as an in...
peer reviewedBackground: Heroin-assisted treatment (HAT) can improve the condition of heroin addicts...
Heroin-assisted treatment has been examined broadly in Switzerland since 1994 within the context of ...
peer reviewedThe objective of the present study was to verify if severe physical health problems fre...