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Addiction Medicine
UCSF launches study on treatment for prescription drug addiction
May 2nd, 2007
UCSF is launching a new study to evaluate treatments for addiction to prescription painkillers and has openings for patients to enroll. This is the first large-scale study to assess whether addiction to opioid painkillers, such as Vicodin and OxyContin, can effectively be treated with drug treatments currently used for heroin addiction. The study is part of a national effort involving 11 clinical research centers to evaluate such therapies. Known as the Prescription Opiate Addiction Treatment Study, or POATS, it is being led by the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network, under the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA). UCSF is the...
Source: Biotech Week (2007-05-02)
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