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Biotech / Medical : DTOX - CITA BIOMEDICAL, ULTRA RAPID OPIATE DETOXIFICATION -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cisco who wrote (25)	2/17/1999 1:15:00 PM
From: Frank Buck	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 96

The Office of National Drug Control Policy maintains over 14% of the estimated U.S. heroin users are on methadone. I recall reading about the United Kingdoms problems with addiction and more specifically heroin. It seems to me that the U.K.registered methadone program enables addicts to maintain their addiction without compromising society and the health standards of Britian. But this is certainly a socail problem of great size. It appears that enabling addicts to maintain a dependency... whether on methadone or horse is analagous to six of one and half a dozen of another. Consider this: "Drug Approved to Fight Heroin Addiction" Australian Daily Telegraph Online (02/04/99); Farr, Malcolm Australia's Drug Evaluation Committee has agreed to permit the sale of the anti-addiction drug Naltrexone, which will be used to treat heroin addicts and alcoholics. The prescription medicine, to be launched in March under the name Revia, is considered by some more effective than methadone. Naltrexone has been tested in rapid detoxification programs, but many doctors have been divided about such a "cold turkey" method for heroin addicts. While investigators involved in one study in Perth reported success rates of up to 90 percent, a pilot program at Sydney University found only 30 percent of patients were drug-free at the end of the study. And this: "U.S. Aims to Halve Drug Use by 2007" Baltimore Sun (02/08/99) P. 3A The White House is planning to unveil a five-part strategy aimed at halving the nation's drug problem by 2007. Barry R. McCaffrey, White House drug policy director, said in a report to Congress that drugs in the nation account for the loss of more than 14,000 lives annually. President Clinton noted that the social costs of drug use continue to rise but pointed out that young people are increasingly viewing drugs as risky. Included in the administration's plan are education programs, lowering the number of addicted persons, breaking the cycle of drugs and crime, securing U.S. borders from drugs, and reducing drug supply. Based on that strategy, the administration anticipates cutting drug use and availability by 50 percent by 2007 and 25 percent by 2002. McCaffrey is also in favor of increasing the alternatives to prisons for drug users.