Video: John Strang: Supervised injectable opiate maintenance: Challenges and surprising advantages

Footnotes

1) Paper: Randomized trial of supervised injectable versus oral methadone maintenance: report of feasibility and 6-month outcome

John Strang, John Marsden
Abstract
Addiction Volume 95, Issue 11
2000

2) Paper: Heroin Assisted Treatment (HAT) a Decade Later: A Brief update on science and politics

Abstract
Benedikt Fischer Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes et al
2007 Journal Urban Health

3) Paper: Prescription of Heroin for the Management of Heroin Dependence: Current Status

Abstract
Lintzeris, Nicholas 2009
Adis

4) Paper: Heroin-assisted treatment in Switzerland: a case study in policy change [A Uchtenagen 2009]

Abstract
Addiction 2009

5) Paper: Medical prescription of heroin to treatment resistant heroin addicts: two randomised trials [Wim van den Brink et al BMJ 2003]

Abstract
BMJ August 2003

6) Paper: Heroin-assisted treatment for opioid dependence Randomised controlled trial [Christian Haasen, MD et al 2007]

Abstract
The British Journal of Psychiatry (2007)

7) Paper: NAOMI: The trials and tribulations of implementing a heroin assisted treatment study in North America

Abstract
Candice C Gartry et al
Harm Reduction Journal 2009, 6:2

8) Paper: Supervised injectable heroin or injectable methadone versus optimised oral methadone as treatment for chronic heroin addicts in England after persistent failure in orthodox treatment (RIOTT): a

Abstract
Strang J, Metrebian N, Lintzeris N, et al
Lancet. 2010 May 29;375(9729):1849-50

9) Website: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

www.slam.nhs.uk

10) Paper: Methodology for the Randomised Injecting Opioid Treatment Trial (RIOTT)

Evaluating injectable methadone and injectable heroin treatment versus optimised oral methadone treatment in the UK
Nicholas Lintzeris Joh Strang et al
2006 Harm Reduction Journal

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