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

The author provides some background on heroin maintenance programs from an international perspective; and lists eleven advantages to heroin maintenance over methadone maintenance. Using a harm reduction perspective the author emphasizes the importance of the client to have their needs met as they see them, and concludes that physicians, if they have access to both drugs, might choose to prescribe both, in isolation, or combination.