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European exchange on treatment facility surveys: which perspectives for data collection at European level?

The EMCDDA organised a one day technical meeting on the 19th of September 2012 aimed at exchanging information among treatment experts on objectives, methods, practical implementation and use of outcomes of national...

Lisbon, Portugal

EMCDDA expert meeting

EMCDDA report presents latest evidence on heroin-assisted treatment for hard-to-treat opioid users

A small population of chronic heroin users, once thought to be ‘untreatable’, is now benefiting from a novel type of therapy using medicinal heroin as the substitution drug. In a new report...

New heroin-assisted treatment

The prescription of substitution drugs, such as methadone and buprenorphine, has become a mainstream, first-line treatment for opioid dependence, with around 700 000 of Europe’s 1.3 million problem opioid users receiving substitution...