ReviewJournal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine2007
Heroin-assisted treatment (HAT) a decade later: a brief update on science and politics.
Review in Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.
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- Scientific and political challenges in North America's first randomized controlled trial of heroin-assisted treatment for severe heroin addiction: rationale and design of the NAOMI study.Clinical trials (London, England) · 2009Trial
- Patterns of medical comorbidities among aging people receiving heroin-assisted treatment: A 10-year single-center repeated cross-sectional study.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2026Article
- Operational and clinical procedures of heroin-assisted treatment in Switzerland: a nation-wide survey study.Harm reduction journal · 2025Article
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- Supervised on-site dosing in injectable opioid agonist treatment-considering the patient perspective. Findings from a cross-sectional interview study in two German cities.Harm reduction journal · 2023Article
- Patients' satisfaction with heroin-assisted treatment: a qualitative study.Harm reduction journal · 2023Article
- Is use of opioid agonist treatment associated with broader primary healthcare use among men with recent injecting drug use histories following release from prison? A prospective cohort study.Harm reduction journal · 2023Article
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- How the war on drugs impacts social determinants of health beyond the criminal legal system.Annals of medicine · 2022Review
- Exploring why patients in heroin-assisted treatment are getting incarcerated-a qualitative study.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
- Risk and enabling environments in sport: Systematic doping as harm reduction.The International journal on drug policy · 2021Review
- Stigma and substance use disorders: A clinical, research, and advocacy agenda.The American psychologist · 2020Article
- Motivations to initiate injectable hydromorphone and diacetylmorphine treatment: A qualitative study of patient experiences in Vancouver, Canada.The International journal on drug policy · 2020Article
- Evidence of Modeling Impact in Development of Policies for Controlling the Opioid Epidemic and Improving Public Health: A Scoping Review.Substance abuse : research and treatment · 2019Article
- When is coercive methadone therapy justified?Bioethics · 2018Article
- Nontraditional Alcohol and Opioid Agonist Treatment Interventions.The Medical clinics of North America · 2018Review
- Ethical Issues in Research Involving Participants With Opioid Use Disorder.Therapeutic innovation & regulatory science · 2018Article
- Post-war prevention: Emerging frameworks to prevent drug use after the War on Drugs.The International journal on drug policy · 2018Article
- Research priorities to achieve universal access to hepatitis C prevention, management and direct-acting antiviral treatment among people who inject drugs.The International journal on drug policy · 2017Article
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Abstract
Since the initial Swiss heroin-assisted treatment (HAT) study conducted in the mid-1990s, several other jurisdictions in Europe and North America have implemented HAT trials. All of these studies embrace the same goal-investigating the utility of medical heroin prescribing for problematic opioid users-yet are distinct in various key details. This paper briefly reviews (initiated or completed) studies and their main parameters, including primary research objectives, design, target populations, outcome measures, current status and-where available-key results. We conclude this overview with some final observations on a decade of intensive HAT research in the jurisdictions examined, including the suggestion that there is a mounting onus on the realm of politics to translate the-largely positive-data from completed HAT science into corresponding policy and programming in order to expand effective treatment options for the high-risk population of illicit opioid users.
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