Prescribing heroin can help treatment resistant addicts
...ed prescription of a combination of methadone plus heroin is feasible, safe, and effective in reducing the many physical, mental, and social problems of heroin addicts, according to Dutch researchers in this week's BMJ. Researchers in the Netherlands carried o...UCLA researchers release profile of proposition 36-eligible drug offenders
...ine/crack (15 percent), marijuana (12 percent) and heroin (11 percent), according to the report. On average, SACPA clients had longer drug use histories than non-SACPA clients referred to treatment by criminal justice. Most SACPA clients (86 percent) were placed in outpatient drug-free programs, and 10...Enzyme structure holds key to cocaine, heroin metabolism
...e breakdown in the body and the first two steps of heroin breakdown. The researchers determined the crystal ...e feeling of complacency and peace associated with heroin use." In terms of using hCE1 against chemical weapons, Redinbo said the U.S. military is aggressivel...This is your heart on drugs: Study improves ER treatment for cocaine's heart effects
...s from heart-related causes; one patient died of a heroin overdose, and one of a gunshot wound. Of the 256 patients for whom detailed follow-up was obtained, four patients -- all of whom kept using cocaine -- had had heart attacks. Sixty-three of the patients had had more chest pain. The fact that 64 of t...Research, physician training combine to put care for opiate dependence in hands of family doctor
...g Abuse (NIDA), will now become available to treat heroin and other opioid dependence through certification ... an opportunity to treat patients for addiction to heroin or other opioids, including prescription pain-killers. Physicians will be required to refer patient...New drug may help recovering cocaine addicts, study shows
...ir habit in much the same way that methadone helps heroin addicts withdraw, according to a study conducted b...ikely to be abused than strong reinforcers such as heroin or cocaine and therefore are less likely to have abuse-related toxicity. Earlier studies suggest tha...Using naltrexone to treat alcoholics with a 'Mediterranean drinking pattern'
...ted. It was first developed in the 1970s to block heroin from activating the receptors for opiates, later becoming approved for the treatment of heroin addiction in the mid-1980s. In the late 1980s, researchers began to suspect it might have uses for ...Doubling of deaths from alcoholic liver disease - drug abuse during 1970s and 1980s may explain why
...ese are people who would have been involved in the heroin epidemic of 1970s and 1980s. Significantly, this was before the introduction of needle exchange and other interventions instigated in the late 1980s to reduce the risk of HIV transmission in drug users."...Researchers seek genetic clues to identify addicts and patients who will benefit from treatment
...ment. Background The most common treatment for heroin addiction is methadone, used because of its ability to produce psychic and physical dependence, but with significantly milder withdrawal symptoms than heroin. Previously published studies have documented methadone toxicity and noted a higher risk in...Drug used in treatment of alcoholism may have role in treatment of HIV
Naltrexone, a drug used in the treatment of heroin addiction and alcoholism, may increase the effecti...ain preventing the high associated with the use of heroin and otheropioids. Although the mechanism of the synergistic activity of naltrexone, AZT, and indinav...Multimillion-dollar pain research center funded at Wake Forest
...o light touch have a much lower potential to abuse heroin that they are self-administering for their pain. A...mine what parts of the brain are being affected by heroin in the presence or absence of pain. "The whole purpose of the grant is to better understand how to ...Alcoholics may be more injury prone than illicit drug users
...ug dependent. Reported drug choices were cocaine, heroin or other (mainly sedatives and marijuana). Participants were interviewed at baseline (during detoxification), and then at six months, 12 months, 18 months, and 24 months following detoxification. Self-reported episodes of injury were defined as: a ...Rewards coupled with naltrexone effective in treating heroin and other opioid addictions
... "Many people who are addicted to opioids such as heroin think that all that is available to help them is methadone maintenance, which is very effective, but its not for everyone," Carroll said. "New Haven has one of the relatively few established and successful naltrexone programs in the United States." ...Methadone promotes HIV infection in cell culture
... is widely used in drug treatment centers to treat heroin addicts, stimulates HIV infection of human immune ...V-contaminated needles, drugs such as morphine and heroin classified as opiates have been shown to stimulate HIV replication in human immune cells. Methadon...33-year study emphasizes lethal consequences of heroin addiction
After following a cohort of heroin addicts for more than 33 years, researchers from t...40 percent of the 242 survivors reported past year heroin use and many reported other illicit drug use. The study is published in the May 14, 2001, issue o...Methadone may cause potentially fatal arrhythmia, Georgetown researchers find
...done is widely used to treat patients dependent on heroin and other narcotic drugs, and it is not unusual for such patients to have cardiovascular complications, we werent sure whether the reported arrhythmias were due to drug addiction or some other factor, said Raymond L. Woosley, MD, PhD, associate dean ...Research leads to more effective methods of treating drug addictions
...ng it. Eventually, we may be better able to treat heroin addicts, and better able to help people like cancer patients who have chronic severe pain." Professor Freedmans article, "Altered Gating of Opiate Receptor-Modulated K+ Channels on Amygdala Neurons of Morphine-Dependent Rats," was co-authored with No...High success rates for variety of heroin addiction treatment medications
... (60-100 mg.) were much more effective in treating heroin addiction than low-dose methadone maintenance (20 ... There are nearly one million chronic users of heroin in the United States, and this study is important because it helps to identify the most effective tr...Fine-tuning naltrexone treatment for alcoholics
...irst developed in the 1970s as a compound to block heroin and other opioid agonists from activating the rece...980s, naltrexone was approved for the treatment of heroin addiction. In the late 1980s, researchers began to suspect that drinking alcohol was pleasurable be...Acupuncture is promising treatment for cocaine addiction, Yale researchers find
...included 82 participants who were addicted to both heroin and cocaine. They received methadone for their heroin addiction, but they continued to use cocaine. Participants were assigned to one of three groups: aur...