إذ تدرك ضخامة عدد الأشخاص من المدمنين للمواد الأفيونية، والعدد الكبير منهم الذين يتلقون المعالجة من الادمان،
Reaffirming that substitution treatment should be considered part of medically assisted pharmaceutical treatment and should be used to maintain opiate-dependent persons in long-term medical treatment in order to reduce the consumption of illicit drugs and the risk of transmitting infectious diseases, to improve mental and physical health and to reduce drug-related crime, with a view to achieving abstinence, when possible,