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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Published in:	Addiction Vol. 100; no. 12; pp. 1832 - 1840
Main Authors:	Paterson S, Lintzeris N, Mitchell TB, Cordero R, Nestor L, Strang J
Format:	research tables/charts Journal Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Dec2005
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost