Validation of techniques to detect illicit heroin use in patients prescribed pharmaceutical heroin for the management of opioid dependence.

BACKGROUND: The clinical implementation and evaluation of heroin substitution programmes have been confounded by the lack of objective and validated biomarkers for illicit heroin use in patients prescribed pharmaceutical heroin. This study examined the capacity to detect illicit heroin use by gas ch...

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Publicado en:Addiction Vol. 100; no. 12; pp. 1832 - 1840
Autores principales: Paterson S, Lintzeris N, Mitchell TB, Cordero R, Nestor L, Strang J
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Dec2005
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