What treatments are available for heroin addiction?

What treatments are available for heroin addiction?

Michael Jourdan (Drug Researcher) gives expert video advice on: What treatments are available for heroin addiction?; How effective is heroin addiction treatment?; How expensive is heroin treatment? and more...

First choice treatment for heroin addiction since 1965, has been Methadone. Methadone was launched in New York by Doleinize wonder. Two doctors who rediscovered a painkiller that they found out had several advantages over taking street drugs. One being it was having a much longer half-life, which meant it would stabilize your life if you took it, because you were not experiencing the up-and-down roller coasters. The kind of rides that you have if you take heroin. So Methadone was a pharmacological cure, it was conceived of in the beginning. It was also oversold one could say, because it was not as much as a solution as one expected from the very first results. But Methadone treatment spread as a treatment modality for the United States to the rest of the world. And it still goes on as one of the main treatments for heroin addiction. Later on, came other kinds of Opiates that were produced by the pharmaceutical industry. One of the most promising now is Bruprenofine, which has the preference in many countries. And it has taken a preference over methadone treatment.