A Review of Recent Advances in Knowledge About Methadone Maintenance Treatment (2001)
The RAND Corporation’s objective analysis of worldwide methadone maintenance practice. This report summarizes the existing evidence on methadone maintenance treatment for opioid dependent persons, in order to provide a knowledge base for the development of practice guidelines development. |
Cost utility analysis of co-prescribed heroin compared with methadone maintenance treatment in heroin addicts in two randomised trials
This BMJ article uses the information gathered in two randomised trials in the Netherlands to assess whether the co-prescription of heroin is cost effective compared with treatment with methadone alone for chronic, treatment resistant heroin addicts. |
Drink and Drug News
Drink and Drugs News is a fortnightly free magazine for substance misuse specialists and those in the wider health, social care and criminal justice fields who deal with drug and alcohol issues in the course of their work. |
Druglink
Druglink is a bi-monthly magazine for all those UK professionals interested in drugs and drug-related issues whether it's treatment, public health, education and prevention, criminal justice or international. |
Employing drug users
This e-book, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, examines the barriers drug users and ex users face when they seek employment. |
Feasibility of prescribing injectable heroin and methadone to opiate-dependent drug users: associated health gains and harm reductions
This study, by Nicky Metrebian, William Shanahan, Brian Wells and Gerry V Stimson, aims to assess the feasibility of offering the choice of prescribing injectable heroin (diamorphine) or injectable methadone to opiate-dependent injecting drug users and to assess whether there are health and social gains associated with prescribing injectable opiates. |
Mama Coca
An on-line academic journal on complexity, conflict and drugs in the American region. |
Maximising Harm
Maximizing Harm is a book about the drug war. It started as a Web project before being turned into a print edition. A new revised edition of the book is scheduled for release in 2006 and the book is no longer on the website, but you can still access the linked notes from the old edition. |
Neurobiology of cocaine addiction
This presentation by Oscar d’Agnone was originally delivered at the 2004 National Drug Treatment conference. |
Prescribing heroin: what is the evidence?
This page provides a summary of a report, by Gerry Stimson and Nicky Metrebian from the Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour at Imperial College, which looks at the reasons for international interest in prescribing heroin. It critically examines the research, clinical, political and practical challenges to expanding heroin prescribing in the UK. |
Supervised fixing rooms, supervised injectable maintenance clinics – understanding the difference
This article by Professor John Strang and Rudi Fortson in the BMJ looks at the difference between supervised drug consumption rooms and supervised injectable maintenance clinics and the organisational and legal challenges posed by both. |
The biological basis of drug dependence
This presentation by Professor Peter Redfern was originally delivered at the 2004 National Drug Treatment conference. |
The Crack Report
This report from Turning Point looks at possible solutions to and ways forward from the social and healthcare problems which have followed the recent rise in crack use in the UK. |
The Daily Dose
Daily Dose is the world's leading news service on drug and alcohol misuse. The web site and mailouts, updated daily, provide links to a range of relevant material from specialist organisations and the popular media from around the world. |
The First International Conference on Heroin Maintenance
This page links to speeches and presentations from the First International Conference on Heroin Maintenance. |
The Heroin Herald
A user’s journal produced by David Wright, one of the Alliance’s volunteers. This journal is the source of many of the articles in David’s regular freesheet, the Heroin Herald. |
The Heroin Times
The Heroin Times is an online magazine about heroin and heroin addiction. Its mission is to provide the public with information on heroin treatment facilities and cover issues of the political and social impact of heroin use in the USA and beyond. |
The Methadone Briefing
Andrew Preston’s excellent 1996 work on the history and pharmacology of, and research into, methadone prescribing can be found here. |
The Methadone Maintained Patient and the Treatment of Pain
This article, by J. Thomas Payte, Elizabeth Khuri, Herman Joseph and Joycelyn Woods, looks at opioid pain relief for methadone patients. |
The Methadone Symposium Part 1
This link leads to the Mount Sinai Journal of Medecine, Volume 67 Number 5 & 6 (October/November 2000). |
The Methadone Symposium Part 2
This link leads to the Mount Sinai Journal of Medecine, Volume 68 Number 1 (January 2001). |
The Narco News Bulletin
Reports on the drug war from Latin America with breaking news, analysis,
investigative journalism, translations of journalism from Mexico and beyond. |
The neuroscience of psychoactive substance use and dependence
This neuroscience report is the first attempt by the World Health Organisation to provide a comprehensive overview of the biological factors related to substance use and dependence by summarizing the vast amount of knowledge gained in the last 20-30 years. The report highlights the current state of knowledge of the mechanisms of action of different types of psychoactive substances, and explains how the use of these substances can lead to the development of dependence syndrome. |
UNODC Bulletin on Narcotics
This bulletin attempts to give the most recent news on the results obtained in the control of narcotic drugs and the struggle against addiction, by Governments, by the United Nations and by the organizations established under the Conventions. It contains technical and scientific articles on narcotic drugs and articles on the legislation and administration in various countries as well as bibliographical material. |
