Scientists are now exploring new ideas by researching if old medicine can treat drug dependence. If we experiment with old drugs its a lot cheaper than bringing in and using new drugs. With new drugs you have to get federal approval before you can do anything with the drug. At the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, nearly all the potential alcoholism drugs tested in people under institute sponsorship over the past 10 years were previously approved for some other use.
Despite years of research, there is no drug approved in the United States for treating cocaine addiction. To find such a treatment the National Institute on Drug Abuse is sponsoring human studies of 21 medicines already on the market for something else. Tha
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