Heroin Treatment: Methadone & Heroin Facts

heroin treatment - Important information about methadone and heroin. Methadone is used to treat addiction to heroin and other drugs.

	Methadone is a synthetic opioid used medically as a painkiller, but also to treat patients on opioids such as heroin.

What is substitute treatment in heroin treatment?
I am currently writing my dissertation on prescription heroin as a treatment method and have come across the phrase substitute treatment, I can't find a definition anywhere and need to know whether this means methadone or prescribed heroin?Thank you