We don't have a good
drug for cocaine addiction, but we have drugs for alcohol addiction, opiate addiction and a wide range of addictions.
«Currently there isn't any effective treatment
available for cocaine addiction so understanding the underlying mechanism is essential for targeting potential new treatments.»
About half met
criteria for cocaine addiction: They had used cocaine for an average of 10 years and had the drug in their systems on the day of the scan, according to urine tests.
With the results of the current study in hand, Snyder has brokered a deal between that company and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for NIDA to test CGP3466B as a treatment
for cocaine addiction.
To beat those odds, the National Institute on Drug Abuse has made developing an effective treatment
for cocaine addiction a top priority.
There's no approved medical treatment
for cocaine addiction: no therapeutic equivalent of the methadone dose, the Antabuse pill, or the nicotine patch.