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Understanding Swiss Drug Policy Change and the Introduction of Heroin Maintenance Treatment

Author(s) -

Riaz Khan,

Yasser Khazaal,

Gabriel Thorens,

Daniele Zullino,

Ambros Uchtenhagen

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

european addiction research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.862

H-Index - 54

eISSN - 1421-9891

pISSN - 1022-6877

DOI - 10.1159/000357234

Subject(s) - heroin , stakeholder , politics , political science , medical prescription , addiction , feeling , public administration , democracy , element (criminal law) , legislation , public relations , drug , medicine , pharmacology , psychology , psychiatry , law , social psychology

The aim of this paper is to illustrate how Switzerland was able to play such a pioneering role in the field of addiction treatment, in creating a drug policy that includes the medical prescription of diacetylmorphine (heroin). The paper will also describe the role of knowledge brokering processes and coalition building in the different phases of the development of the Swiss drug policy.

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