New drug to treat meth addiction receives major NIH grant

Re:New drug to treat meth addiction receives major NIH grant by GhettoComputers on Thursday November 04, 2021 @01:03PM (#29109697)

What’s the point? Meth isn’t a huge European issue is it? They’re usually dealing with impure amphetamine pastes.

They already can block it with antipsychotics which block dopamine. Since addiction to stimulants is much faster to recover from, they can even just induce sleep for 3 days and all physical withdrawal will be gone and the dopamine receptors will recover.

Is the monoclonal antibodies treatment just an artifact of the COVID one like how mRNA treatments will probably also be in the pipeline from research?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:New drug to treat meth addiction receives major NIH grant by CodeWriter23 on Thursday November 04, 2021 @01:20PM (#29109948)

I've watched hundreds of meth/"meth" addicts get clean over the past couple of decades. And though the withdrawal period may be short, the amount of time after physical withdrawal until they can exhibit any kind of cohesive and structured thought is generally about 12 months. We call it the "Spin Cycle" in the circles I frequent.

[ Parent | on HN ]