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...Harvard psychiatrists reported this week that the drug buprenorphine may be a safer and more effective treatment for heroin addiction than the drugs currently used...
...Jack H. Mendelson, professor of Psychiatry, and Dr. Nancy K. Mello, associate professor of Psychology, reported in Science magazine that ten heroin addicts voluntarily reduced their heroin consumption by 69 to 98 per cent after using buprenorphine...
Mendelson and Mello conducted a 40-day study at McLean Hospital in Belmont of ten male volunteers who had used heroin for an average of ten years and had failed to quit after treatment with the two drugs currently used, methadone and naltrexone...
They could receive a heroin injection if they performed a simple 90-minute task. All those who had received the placebo injection chose to perform the task and injected from 93 to 100 per cent of the heroin available to them. The volunteers who received buprenorphine injections used only 2 to 31 per cent of the available heroin...
...HAVEN, Conn.--Four Yale Medical School professors say they have found a drug that eliminates withdrawal pains suffered by heroin and methadone addicts...