How is prescribed heroin administered to a user?

How is prescribed heroin administered to a user?

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Prescribed heroine is administered to the user preferably in the form that he already uses the drug in. This can best be illustrated in a Dutch heroine trial because the Dutch were criminalists in a way that many of the heroin users are not injectors. It would be totally irresponsible to introduce heroine prescription in the form of injectable heroine, to people who were not injecting. So what they do is they provide smokable heroine to people who smoke heroine and injectable heroine, to the people who are already injectors. In principle one could conceive of crossovers. It would be preferable for an injector started to smoke for instance. That would be a little advance on the health risk scales of that particular drug user's life. One could conceive of other crossovers to safer forms. Right now, most places it is delivered in sterile ampules where people will get their precise dosage of injectable heroine on a 2-3 times daily basis.