How effective is heroin-assisted treatment?

How effective is heroin-assisted treatment?

Michael Jourdan (Drug Researcher) gives expert video advice on: What is a 'heroin injection site'?; What controversial heroin treatments are being tried in Europe?; How do police departments in the United States and Canada react to injection sites? and more...

Heroin-assisted treatment is completely ineffective if you expect someone to take the drug for a very short while and then become clean and productive citizens, and not people who still have considerable problems. If you're realistic, you expect something less and you'll find very big improvements on a large number of parameters. One being the risk of dying is considerably lower. One being your health will improve. One being your social life will also improve. One being the risk of being engaged in crime and illegal markets will also greatly diminish. So there are great results from administering legal heroin to people if you have an eye for relative improvement.