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Perhaps the rats’ brains were somehow reset or readjusted in this study suggesting that methadone might be used to treat opiate dependence. However, the brains that really need to be readjusted are the human brains that have some kind of inkling that treating cocaine addiction with highly addictive methadone would be of any benefit. It is like treating parasites with kerosene. Sure, the cure worked, but what about the state of the patient? It reminds one of Hemingway’s comments after he received shock treatment, suggesting that the cure worked, but we lost the patient.
Most anyone in the field of addiction who has worked with cocaine addicts and methadone addicts would wager that the cocaine addict has the better chance at achieving and maintaining sobriety than the methadone addict. Yet this study suggests that we switch one for the other.
Methadone addiction is hell – tying a person’s daily existence to the clinic. Some describe it as a life not worth living. Why would we purposely create more?
With all this money that apparently is floating around for these silly studies, why not look for treatment that works. There is actually some available.
Push effective treatment.
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New research out of the University of Guelph in Canada suggests that methadone, normally used to treat opiate dependence, may also be effective in treating cocaine addiction, the Ottawa Citizen reported Nov. 24.
Researcher Francesco Leri and colleagues tested the effects of methadone on cocaine-dependent rats and found that the rats did not experience cocaine highs after getting methadone.
The researchers also found that methadone appeared to have a "resetting" effect on portions of the rats' brains responsible for addictive behavior. "What's interesting is that, among the rats given cocaine and then methadone, these regions of the brain looked similar to how they appeared in the rats that were never exposed to cocaine," Leri said.
"We feel we may have the hope of resetting the brains of some individuals to a type of normality," he said. "I think it should be tried and I guarantee you there will be some individuals -- not everybody -- who will do better on methadone, who will be stabilized on methadone."
The U.S. National Institute for Drug Abuse also is researching the effects of methadone and similar addiction medication, such as buprenorphine on cocaine-dependency.
http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2008/study-methadone-may-be.html
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