The Heroin Prescribing Debate: Integrating Science and Politics

Article Abstract:

There is debate about whether to treat heroin addicts by prescribing heroin. Both England and Switzerland allow doctors to prescribe heroin and the successes and failures of that approach are analyzed. An Australian feasibility study identified at least 5 potential risks involved with prescribing heroin. In the end, clinical trails must be conducted.

Usage, Drug therapy, Heroin habit, Heroin

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Report of the 1999 Council Meeting

Article Abstract:

The 1999 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is detailed. President of AAAS M.R.C. Greenwood detailed what AAAS' board had been doing over the 1998 year. AAAS' executive officer, Richard Nicholson, also spoke on the state of the association. And Betsy Clark, chair of the Ad Hoc Task Force on Fellows, spoke.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science

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