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But in order to properly test the effectiveness, the three-year project, called “Study to Assess Longer-term Opioid Medication Effectiveness”, will have some addicts given Dilaudid and a control group heroin.

Heroin Is Illegal, Except When The Government Buys It For You « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009

But in order to properly test the effectiveness, the three-year project, called “Study to Assess Longer-term Opioid Medication Effectiveness”, will have some addicts given Dilaudid and a control group heroin.

2009 June 01 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009

The research arm of Health Canada has approved the Study to Assess Longer-term Opioid Medication Effectiveness (SALOME) as a way to examine alternate therapies for addicts who have not responded to conventional methadone treatment.

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But Mr. Reynolds, a member of the InnerChange Foundation in Vancouver, applauded the research arm of Health Canada for financing the Study to Assess Longer-term Opioid Medication Effectiveness (SALOME), which will offer heroin and a legal substitute, Hydromorphone.

Liblogs News Feed 2009

The Study to Assess Longer-term Opioid Medication Effectiveness (SALOME) builds on a recently completed heroin maintenance trial (NAOMI) that included more than 240 participants in Montreal and Vancouver with severe drug addiction.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Gord Kehler, chair, InnerChange Foundation 2009

The Study to Assess Longer-term Opioid Medication Effectiveness (SALOME) will choose a Downtown Eastside location next month and begin taking applications from potential participants in February, according to a Tuesday press release from the Inner Change Foundation, which, along with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, is funding the trial.

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Study Reveals Predictors of Long-term Opioid Use for Back Pain

Newswise: Latest News 2010

The Annals of Internal Medicine published a cohort study which attempts to provide more data on this question in a population of patients with chronic, non-cancer related pain (unfortunately entitled Opioid Prescriptions for Chronic Pain and Overdose).

Pallimed: A Hospice & Palliative Medicine Blog 2010

"Opioid" is the medical term for powerful pain relievers like morphine.

Military Top Stories Center 2010

Of the six, two of the studies have already been completed: "Opioid and Cannabinoid Pharmacokinetic Interactions" and "Vaporization as a Smokeless Cannabis Delivery System," both of which were spearheaded by researchers primarily Dr. Donald Abrams at the University of California at San Francisco.

Paul Armentano: Change We Can Believe In? Not for Medical Marijuana Research Paul Armentano 2011