Two decades of the Swiss program based on the prescription of Diacetylmorphine, from a public health intervention to a treatment option

The medical prescription of diacetyl morphine (heroin) treatment is an addition to the therapeutic arsenal for patients gravely dependent or addicted to heroin use and for whom other forms of therapy have failed. In Switzerland, the Federal Office of Public Health SFOPH) has established directives and recommendations concerning prescription and administration of diacetyl- morphine.