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...promising new treatment that permits heroin addicts to kick the habit was reported last week by two New York City physicians. It involves switching from heroin, which can cost the addict $25 or more a day-and is almost certain to involve him in crime -to methadone, a relatively harmless drug that costs 10? for a daily dose. Methadone's only significant side effect is constipation...
Spiked Orange Juice. In the A.M.A. Journal, Dr. Vincent P. Dole of the Rockefeller Institute and Dr. Marie Nyswander of Manhattan General Hospital report that after considering other drugs as heroin substitutes, they hit upon methadone, a synthetic painkiller made from coal-tar extracts and marketed by Eli Lilly & Co. as Dolophine. A short course of methadone, the doctors knew, would ease the addict's first pangs of withdrawal from heroin. But they also knew that more than 80% of "cured" addicts promptly relapsed, and they wondered whether continued treatment with methadone would keep them off their "horse...
Rugged Test. "The most dramatic effect of this treatment," report Drs. Dole and Nyswander, "has been the disappearance of narcotic hunger." By some biochemical action that still eludes the medical experts, methadone blocks the usual effects of heroin. While on methadone, the doctors continue, the patients can watch addict friends inject heroin, or even take a test injection themselves, and still resist all temptation because they no longer get any kick or euphoria from heroin. This is true even with massive test doses, far more potent than a street "bag." And if a patient should sneak a shot of heroin...
...then he was already hooked on heroin. Despite this, he formed his own group, and in the early 1950s became the dominant figure in the newly emerging "cool school." But he was spending $70 a day for drugs. In 1954, he walked into a Seattle drugstore, stuck his finger in his pocket and demanded narcotics. When the clerk asked to see his gun, he fled. Incongruously, a few minutes later he telephoned the pharmacy to apologize. Police traced the call to his hotel room and arrested him. He collapsed and was removed to a hospital. From his hospital...
Doctors used to think that only half a dozen narcotics, such as heroin and morphine, could cause a true addiction: the victim could give up the drug without suffering the agonies of withdrawal. They have since discovered that there are lots of non-narcotic drugs that can lead to addiction and similar withdrawal sickness as well. Long-term use of barbiturates will do it. So will the so-called "minor tranquilizers" like meprobamate (Miltown or Equanil) and chlordiazepoxide (Librium), and the stimulant amphetamines ("bennies" or "goofballs"). Last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Medical Director Joseph Sadusk...