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- From: aankrom@nyx.cs.du.edu (Anthony Ankrom)
- Subject: Re: Methadone
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.021838.23801@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 02:18:38 GMT
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- In article <1egvm9INNm1@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> greg@antizen.EBay.Sun.COM
- writes:
- >Do any of you `brains` out there no the history and philosophical intent
- >behind methadone? I have to give an oral lecture Monday and any backgrou
- d
- >would be GREATLY appreciated!!!!
- >
- >Greg
-
-
- Well, too late now, but methadone therapy was intended to replace heroin
- because of several key aspects in methadone's pharmacology: it lasts for
- ca 24 hrs., it doesn't give a "rush" like heroin, but more of a kind of
- "glow", and methadone withdrawal is far less unpleasant than heroin
- withdrawal. That's it in a nutshell. Methadone was invented by Germans
- around WWII I htink...
-
- St. Anthony
-
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