Historique
Périodique
Heroin-based treatment
(Prescription médicale d'héroïne)
Auteur(s) :
MICHELS, I. I.
Année
2002
Page(s) :
523-542
Sous-type de document :
Etude de synthèse / Synthetic study
Langue(s) :
Anglais
ISBN :
0022-0426
Refs biblio. :
60
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Thésaurus géographique
PAYS-BAS
;
SUISSE
;
ALLEMAGNE
Thésaurus mots-clés
PRESCRIPTION MEDICALE
;
HEROINE
;
DISTRIBUTION CONTROLEE
;
TRAITEMENT
;
COMPARAISON
;
METHADONE
Note générale :
Journal of Drug Issues, 2002, 32, 523-542
Résumé :
ENGLISH :
This article describes the history of the heated legal controversy in Germany about prescribing medicinal narcotics. The professional corporations of medical doctors have claimed a right to govern the interpretation and definition of legal terms and for a long time resisted the clinical insights and practical experience about maintenance treatment that had been gathered from abroad. The next logical step was to prescribe heroin - also formerly a licensed medication - in cases where methadone was not accepted or physically tolerated by patients. Slowly the social and political taboos against providing narcotic maintenance to addicts have been removed. The author addresses the question of whether prescribing heroin to addicts can reduce health and social problems and improve the client's quality of life. (Author's abstract.)
Affiliation :
Univ. Bremen
Allemagne. Germany.
Allemagne. Germany.