Eleven reasons why injectable heroin should be available as an option to physicians who are treating heroin addicts

While the advantages of methadone maintenance are well known, the advantages of heroin maintenance are less well publicised. This paper lists and describes some of the advantages of heroin maintenance, such as fewer side effects, withdrawal symptoms and deaths than methadone maintenance. Other advantages relate to heroin maintenance programs being more empowering, inclusive, less restrictive, and ultimately more effective than methadone programs.