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Separating politics and scientific research on heroin prescription

Alex D Wodak, Alison J Ritter and Charles RR Watson
Med J Aust 2002; 176 (10): . || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2002.tb04510.x
Published online: 6 May 2002

To the Editor: Hall et al1 argue that a hydromorphone trial would break the current deadlock in Australia over prescription heroin research. But would it? If hydromorphone was demonstrated to be an effective intervention for treating refractory heroin users, researchers would then wish to compare both hydromorphone and prescription heroin against the gold standard, oral methadone.

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