Word: senay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from home. "We never knew what the job markets were," admits Lexington Director Dr. Jimmie Hawthorne. "We just weren't close enough to the home environment of the addicts." Though the White House office for drug abuse prevention asserts that local facilities are adequate, others disagree. Dr. Edward Senay, director of the Illinois drug treatment program, estimates that 90% of U.S. addicts now go untended...
...problem posed by methadone's addictive properties remains to be solved. But two doctors at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine have experimented with a drug that may resolve the dilemma of distribution. Writing in the A.M.A. Journal, Drs. Jerome Jaffe and Edward Senay report that 1-methadyl acetate, a methadone-like substance, suppresses both withdrawal symptoms and narcotic hunger up to three times as long as ordinary methadone. Therefore it decreases the temptation and the opportunity to cheat on the treatment by selling the heroin substitute for drug money...
...groups. Nor were the addicts themselves able to distinguish between the drugs. All ten were equally able to resist the opiates to which they were addicted. For the present, 1-methadyl acetate is being produced only for investigational purposes and is not available for addiction-treatment programs. The Jaffe-Senay results are encouraging enough, however, to stimulate testing on a large scale...