Drug – bio-affecting and body treating compositions – Identification or warning feature – Taste or smell or chemical irritation to the eye – nose – or...
Patent
1988-11-21
1990-04-24
Friedman, Stanley J.
Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
Identification or warning feature
Taste or smell or chemical irritation to the eye, nose, or...
514810, 514812, A61K 2700
Patent
active
049199161
ABSTRACT:
Treatment of the abuse of those addictive drugs whose apparent mode of operation includes first an enhancement of neurotransmitter activity and subsequently a reduction in that activity--and in accompanying pleasurable sensations--to such an extent that abusers thereof feel compelled to repeat the experience. Examples of abused drugs for which treatment is suitable are amphetamines, cocaine, meperidine, phencyclidine, and new "designer" drugs. The treatment is by daily dosage of phenelzine or equivalent phenylalkylhydrazine so as to effect a degree of monoamine oxidase inhibition incompatible with the abused drug during the period of treatment and for at least a couple weeks thereafter. Concurrent usage is productive of a broad range of dangerous and frightening reactions, described in graphic detail to all patients undergoing such treatment, and any breach of the prohibition confirms the necessity of remaining free of the abused drug throughout. The treatment is effective in producing at least temporary and frequently longer-lasting abstinence.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3000903 (1961-09-01), Biel
Friedman Stanley J.
McClure Charles A.
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