TY - JOUR AU - Gartry, Candice C. AU - Oviedo-Joekes, Eugenia AU - Laliberté, Nancy AU - Schechter, Martin T. PY - 2009 DA - 2009/01/21 TI - NAOMI: The trials and tribulations of implementing a heroin assisted treatment study in North America JO - Harm Reduction Journal SP - 2 VL - 6 IS - 1 AB - Opioid addiction is a chronic, relapsing disease and remains a major public health challenge. Despite important expansions of access to conventional treatments, there are still significant proportions of affected individuals who remain outside the reach of the current treatment system and who contribute disproportionately to health care and criminal justice costs as well as to public disorder associated with drug addiction. SN - 1477-7517 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1477-7517-6-2 DO - 10.1186/1477-7517-6-2 ID - Gartry2009 ER -