Cost Benefit Analysis of Heroin Maintenance Treatment

The book series ‘Medical Prescription of Narcotics’ gives an account of the research reports of a Swiss study on prescription of narcotics to chronic heroin addicts. In this second volume the results are examined from an economical standpoint. The four main aspects analyzed are housing, work, legal behavior and health. The benefits are rated according to the changes in the quantified effects for the participants followed for one year after entry to the trial. The assessment of the partial benefi