methadone for chronic heroin addiction . oral v Cost-effectiveness of injectable opioid treatment

Given increasing resource pressures on health services, injectabletreatments may be viewed as an unaffordable luxury. However,value for money is also influenced by treatment outcomes and costsavings elsewhere in the health service or wider community. Withthe economic and social costs of Class A drug use estimated to beover £15 billion in England and Wales in 2003/04,