The Development of Medications for the Treatment of Opiate and Cocaine Addictions: Issues for the Government and Private Sector - Softcover

Institute Of Medicine; Committee To Study Medication Development And Research At The National Institute On Drug Abuse

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0309052440 ISBN 13: 9780309052443

Publisher: National Academies Press, 1995

Synopsis

Pharmacotherapy, as a means of treating drug addiction in combination with other treatment modalities, has received too little attention from the research community, the pharmaceutical industry, public health officials, and the federal government. Medications to combat drug addiction could have an enormous impact on the medical consequences and socioeconomic problems associated with drug abuse, both for drug-dependent individuals and for American society as a whole. This book examines the current environment for and obstacles to the development of anti-addiction medications, specifically those for treating opiate and cocaine addictions, and proposes incentives for the pharmaceutical industry that would help overcome those obstacles and accelerate the development of anti-addiction medications.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Pharmacotherapy for the treatment of drug addiction has received far too little attention, despite the clinical success of methadone, dates back to the 1960s. Over the last 30 years only two additional medications have been approved for the treatment of opiate addiction, naltrexone and levo-alpha acetylmethadol (LAAM), and it is important to note that both of those medications were developed in the 1960s and early 1970s.

About the Author:

Carolyn E. Fulco, Catharyn T. Liverman, and Laurence E. Earley, Editors; Committee to Study Medication Development and Research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Institute of Medicine

About this edition

• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0309052440
• ISBN 13: 9780309052443
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Earley Laurence E., Liverman Catharyn T., Fulco Carolyn E.