Illegal Drugs
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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- Is There a Drug Abuse Crisis?
- Should Drug Testing Be Allowed?
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Are Antidrug Programs Effective?
- Chapter 3 Preface
- The D.A.R.E. Program Is Effective
- Prison Drug Treatment Programs Are Effective
- Cocaine Treatment Programs Are Effective
- Methadone Is an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction
- The D.A.R.E. Program Has Been Ineffective
- Drug Treatment Programs Are Often Ineffective
- Classroom Drug Education Has Been a Failure
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