Ethical use of opioid treatment - World Health Organization

1 The Ethical Use of Psychosocially Assisted Pharmacological Treatments for opioid Dependence Adrian Carter Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072 Australia Wayne Hall School of Population Health , University of Queensland Herston, QLD 4066 Australia BACKGROUND DOCUMENT PREPARED FOR THIRD MEETING OF TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT GROUP (TDG) FOR THE WHO "GUIDELINES FO R PSYCHOSOCIALLY ASSISTED PHARMACOTHERAPY OF opioid DEPENDENCE" 17-21 SEPTEMBER 2007 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Ethical delivery of psychosocially-assisted pharmacological treatment of opioid dependence is achieved by respecting the following ten basic principles: 1: Human rights of opioid dependent individuals should be res

have reduced opioid use, they have been at the expense of increasing harm to the minority of the population who use opioids despite prohibition by encouraging: the use of injection to maximise opioid effects, unsafe injecting practices (sharing needles and poor injecting technique), the use of impure forms of drug of uncertain strength,

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