Quebec's funding cut endangers study on alternative treatment for people addicted to heroin.
In August 2009, the Quebec government decided to cut $600,000 in funding from a study on alternative treatment for drug users suffering from chronic opiate addiction despite the publication, at the same time, of promising results of the first phase of the trial. The decision could endanger the research project.
D003363:Cost Control; D005380:Financing, Government; D006556:Heroin Dependence / Q000191:economics* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D011792:Quebec