Calidad y heroína: dos palabras unidas por un proyecto

Since 1999 when we asked ourselves if the heroin prescription were an alternative of treatment for heroin addicted people until today when we already have finished the Experimental Drug Prescription Program in Andalusia (PEPSA), we have walked a long way. After the works made in Switzerland, Holland and Andalusia, and the others running or starting in Germany, Canada, Catalonia, and United Kingdom, it can be affirmed that the prescribed heroin is a safe and feasible medicine to drug dependents patients for whom other available treatments were not effectives. The experience lived during nine months by the participants of this clinical trial, has been a process that started from the “fear”, the “uncertainty” and the “doubt” to the stable situations in which today this patients live. To feel “respected and understood”, plenty of “hope and future” and being able to accede a medicine that has restored “their dignity”, give the answer to the initial question: heroin is an alternative to their treatment.