Heroin prescription – revamped and reassessed. http://findings.org.uk/docs/bulletins/Bull_15_06_12.php

Heroin maintenance for chronic heroin-dependent individuals. Update of the first authoritative review to combine results from all trials to date of long-term heroin prescribing for the management of heroin addiction finds important advantages for seemingly intractable patients previously failed by methadone, including reduced illegal drug use.

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Isn’t diamorphine more expensive than methadone? How many times a day would they need to inject? Is this feasible with the current drug system?