Video: John Strang on the concept of supervised injecting heroin clinics and the birth of the RIOTT trial

Footnotes

1) Paper: The response of out patient opiate addicts to the provision of a temporary increase in their prescribed drugs [Gossop, M: Strang, J: Connell, P]

Abstract
British Journal of Psychiatry 141,338-343
1982

2) 'Horse trading’: prescribing injectable opiates to opiate addicts. A descriptive study [Battersby et al 1992]

Drug and Alcohol Review
Abstract
Volume 11 issue 1
1992

3) Paper: Preventing and curtailing injecting drug use: A review of opportunities for developing and delivering 'route transition interventions'

Neil Hunt et al 1999
Abstract
Drug and Alcohol Review
Volume 18, Issue 4

4) Paper: Randomized trial of supervised injectable versus oral methadone maintenance: report of feasibility and 6-month outcome

J Strang J Marsden et al 2000
Abstract
Addiction Volume 95, Issue 11

5) Paper: The Heroin Prescribing Debate: Integrating Science and Politics [Gabriele Bammer et al 1999]

Details
cience 21 May 1999:
Vol. 284. no. 5418, pp. 1277 - 1278

6) Book: Methadone Matters [Gillian Tober, John Strang 2003]

Evolving Practice of Community Methadone Treatment of Opiate Addiction
Informa Healthcare

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John Strang on the concept of supervised injecting heroin clinics and the birth of the RIOTT trial