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Article: New Treatment For Heroin Addiction Appears Effective and Safer Than Increasingly Abused Methadone Reports 'The Medical Letter On Drugs And Therapeutics'.
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- March 5, 2003
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NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. -- NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y., March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The abuse of methadone, which is used to treat heroin addiction, is on the rise and is causing an alarming increase in overdoses and deaths [reported "The New York Times" (Feb. 9, 2003)]. With the high incidence of abuse, the recent introduction of an alternative drug, called buprenorphine, is perfectly timed. But will it really be a solution to the problems associated with methadone? Possibly, according to "The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics" (Feb. 17, 2003), a leading provider of unbiased and comprehensive evaluations of new drugs. "The Medical Letter" reports that buprenorphine appears to ...