1) Follow up Study on Student Addicts.

The increasing number of young patients have been considerably high since 1972. Some of them were students which 20 separated beds were provided. Detoxification is the essential of the treatment program. Because of lacking law re-enforcement all patients were voluntarily treated. The method of study seemed to be more of a pilot project than systematic one. The following up cases were rather difficult. Anyhow, the psychiatric staff were likely to use drug free group on student addicts than any ki...

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2) Clinical study of Dynorpphin in Heroin Dependence Detoxification:Physiological Responses

The authors studied the application of Dynorphin for heroin dependence detoxification. This study was carried doubt in 22 volunteers who were diagnosed as heroin dependences. All volunteers were randomly assigned into three groups 7,7 and 8 cases and started with methadone for 10 days, beginning with the dose of 40 mg/day and gradually decreased to 20 mg/day on the Day 10th and abruptly stopped methadone. Subsequently all volunteers were assigned to receive intravenous injections of Dynorphin ei...

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3) Heroin Detoxification Update

At the present time, there are many strategies to detoxify heroin addicted patients in multi-setting. Methadone maintenance remains the best-established pharmacologic treatment for heroin dependence in spite of its limitation. The rehabilitation program should be provided in conjunction with methadone treatment. The advantage of LAMM, a new opioid agonist, over methadone is that its long half-life eliminates the requirement for daily dosing. Buprenorphine, the partial mu-opioid agonist, has been...

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