Substitution treatments for héroin use slightly euphorient morphine-based synthetic products, and constitute a solution to the problem that opiates addiction poses to the community.

These substitution products may avoid, for some dependent people, the withdrawal syndrome and the compulsive search for stupefacients.

The implementation of these tretaments, in the frame of a psycho-medico-social taking in hands, allows :

• A reduction in the number of death due to heroin overdose,
• A reduction in the number of arraignment of heroin consumption and trade,
• An improvement in the social rehabilitation of the addicts,who are most often in a precarious situation,
• A reduction in infectious diseases (such as AIDS and type-C hepatitis).

To get more information about the substitution products used in France, just click on one of the following names :

• Subutex®,
• Methadone.