UK. Commissioning Cracks: The Costs of Defunding Heroin Assisted Treatment
UK. Commissioning Cracks: The Costs of Defunding Heroin Assisted Treatment
(…) The DAT program in Middlesbrough provides synthetic medical grade heroin (as diacetylmorphine) for supervised self-injection twice daily, under medical supervision in a clinical environment. This was the first service implemented outside of a research trial in England. The service started in 2019, with an initial maximum capacity of 15 people who had used opioids long-term and for whom the existing treatment model (through methadone provision) has not been beneficial (estimated at around 5-10% of the current population of opioid users). (Talking Drugs, UK, 29.09.2022)
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