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Biotech / Medical : DTOX - CITA BIOMEDICAL, ULTRA RAPID OPIATE DETOXIFICATION

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To: Dr. Id who wrote (35)2/19/1999 11:08:00 AM
From: Frank Buck   of 96
 
Hello Jeff,

Thanks for your professional opinion on the U.R.O.D. technique.

Question: Would you say there is a niche opiate remediation market for the professional who really doesn't care about price?

While many addicts may indeed inspire visions of cardboard housed street people.... many are gainfully employed....66% I am told. Of those 66%.... how many are professional people; sports figures, entertainers, business people, heirs to wealth, public officials, rehabbing accident victims, medical practioners?

As such those are indeed the very candidates that may do well at an UROD procedure. A member of your profession who generally has a distaste for a rapid detox program had this to say....

"One day detox under general anesthetic may be a good treatment for the few patients who enjoy perfect health, excellent social and financial circumstances and higher levels of education. It seems to work with doctors and nurses who are employed, for instance."

If C.I.T.A. can muster only 1% of the U.S. opiate addict population... (which grows at an annual rate of 3%) C.I.T.A. can generate $100 million ... top line. If they can license this technology abroad.... we are talking about a substantial-sized revenue producing company. Their margins are sizeable and the competition is straddled by patent infringement... here and abroad.

Yes re-educating the methadone practioners and providing further treatment protocol numbers to your profession is certainly also a must. Yet in spite of the costs.... C.I.T.A. is managing to open facilities in some impressive demo and geo graphic areas. I would expect that to continue. I believe the concept they are employing is..... ...If we provide the physical locations.... the addicts will come.... Of course time will tell. Again I repeat.... detox is not a cure for opiate addiction but it is a viable start.

C.I.T.A. is also working on various other applications for which antagonistic receptor cleansing may help groups of individuals. I hope they come up with an antagonist procedure.... for those of us that are addicted to the consumption of copious amounts of Chinese take-out.... on a weekly basis. Tonight is my fix night for peanut-oil impregnated orange chicken.<g>

Frank
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