| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | Diamorphin
Australien. Australia should start providing Heroin Assisted Treatment
Why Australia should provide Heroin Assisted Treatment to severely dependent heroin users after all other treatment options haven’t worked.
Heroin Assisted Treatment involves supervising prescribed pharmaceutical heroin self-administration with intensive psycho-social help to a minority of people with severe heroin dependence who have not benefitted from multiple other treatments.
The signatories of this letter include senior clinicians and researchers, major health organisations , peer based organisations and people with long standing experience and expertise in the fields of law enforcement, drug policy and drug treatment. (Harm Reduction Australia, August 2017)