Naltrexone implants have continued to be used very widely in Australia despite never having been approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration, writes Dr Alex Wodak.
Heroin dependence
The heroin trial 10 years on: how politics killed hope
Ten years ago, on 19 August 1997, Federal Cabinet at the behest of Prime Minister John Howard aborted a proposed scientific trial to evaluate the effectiveness of prescription heroin as a treatment for heroin dependence. Six years of careful scientific research work was then trashed.
