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y and behavior therapies can deal with the brain chemistry changes as quickly as appropriate medication could."

The National Institute On Drug Abuse (NAIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, is working to develop medications that can counteract drug use. Hall said there is potential to find a drug that could specifically block the effects abusers seek from meth.

The UI review article was supported in part by a NAIDA grant. In addition to Hall, UI researchers involved in the review included lead author Margaret Cretzmeyer, research assistant in the UI School of Social Work; Mary Vaughan Sarrazin, Ph.D., research scientist in internal medicine at the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine; Diane Huber, Ph.D., associate professor in the UI College of Nursing; and Robert Block, Ph.D., associate professor of anesthesiology in the UI Carver College of Medicine.


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Contact: Becky Soglin
becky-soglin@uiowa.edu
319-335-6660
University of Iowa
14-Aug-2003


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