Word: iproniazid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DRUG ADDICTION. Iproniazid (TIME, Dec. 16) has already proved valuable in some cases of drug addiction, by relieving the depression which led to use of narcotics; it may help similarly in cases of alcoholism associated with depression...
...patients with rheumatoid arthritis put on iproniazid, 18 felt better and also had improvement that the doctors could verify; 14 simply felt better...
...Victims of far-advanced cancer enjoyed a marked "mood elevation," complained less of pain (thus needed fewer narcotics), gained weight, though iproniazid had no effect on their disease...
...Senile patients (up to age 92) who had been moody and withdrawn or waspish and argumentative became happier and easier to get along with on iproniazid...
...Even in lowly acne, iproniazid got good results (perhaps because of the emotional factors that are one of its causes). Most notable was the reduction in disfiguring scars...