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| Preocupado
- Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:57 am |
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My family is going through a living hell with a son who has a crack addiction. We have tried EVERYTHING rehab, jail, and our family doctor even prescribed an anti-depressent. Nothing has worked. We recently caught the tail end of a news story about a recently approved medication for Crack Cocaine addiction but missed the name and details. It was supposed to be available very soon. Do you know anything about it?
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| Dr. Chan Lowe
- Sat Feb 16, 2008 4:55 pm |
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 Hello Preocupado,
There are a few different medications that may help. The anti-alcohol medicine called antabuse (disulfiram) also help block the cravings of cocaine addiction. Several anti-seizure medicines can help reduce cravings as well, such as gabapentin.
There is a medication called Nocaine that helps block the effects of cocaine and reduce the high that is obtained; however, this medicine is currently only in trials and not available publically. I do not know when this will be available, if it passes the trials.
You may want to seek the advice of a psychiatrist that specializes in drug abuse for some recommendations about some of these medicines.
Best wishes.
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