The Central Committee on the Treatment of Heroin Addicts (CCBH) was installed by the Minister of Health, Welfare and Sports of the Netherlands in 1996. The task of the CCBH is to report to the Minister about the intended and unintended effects of medical prescription of heroin to heroin addicts who have benefited insufficiently from the currently available treatments.

Between 1998 and 2001, the CCBH investigated a total of 549 patients in two clinical studies: a study into the effects of medically prescribed injectable heroin on the patients' health condition and social functioning, and a similar study into the effects of inhalable heroin. The results of these studies, and of various supplementary studies, are presented on this website.


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