FROM HAMBURG, GERMANY: SUCCESSFUL PREGNANCY OUTCOME WITH HEROIN-ASSISTED TREATMENT OF OPIATE DEPENDENCE:

April 14th, 2008 | Category: Opiate Addiction

Ultimately, therapeutic decisions require weighing of the alternatives, and whatever reservations one might have about clinical prescribing of heroin to pregnant women, for those whom methadone does not help and who reject other forms of care, the alternative is probably abandonment!

THANKS TO

COLLEAGUE HANS-GUENTER MEYER-THOMPSON for calling our attention to that commentary. 2008;14(2):113-4. A successful outcome has just been described in a 31 year old long-time addict who had floped to reply favorably to methadone maintenance. Eur Addict Res.

Original post by RGNewman, MD

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