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Great Britain to launch heroin injection program.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Brief article)

Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly

| December 11, 2006 | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Early next year, Great Britain's Home Office will fund a controversial program in which heroin addicts are given free, supervised, safe injection of pharmaceutical heroin diamorphine twice each day, in a bid to slow drug-related crime and deaths. The Argus reported on November 24 that the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse and the group Action on Addiction will introduce the program in the city of Brighton and Hove. The program will …

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