Illegal Drugs | Methadone Is an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction

Methadone, a long-acting synthetic narcotic analgesic, was first used in the maintenance treatment of drug addiction in the mid-1960s, by Drs. Vincent Dole and Marie Nyswander of Rockefeller University. There are now 115,000 methadone maintenance patients in the U.S. Forty thousand of them are in New York State, and about half that many are in California. Methadone is widely employed throughout the world, and is the most effective known treatment for heroin addiction.

The Goal of Treatment
The goal of methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) is to reduce illegal heroin...

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