Saturday, October 08, 2005

Medication appears effective in treating teen heroin addiction /Medical News Today, 5 Oct 2005

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=31558
"In a comparison of two drugs prescribed to treat teenagers dependent on heroin and other opioids, the drug buprenorphine was more effective, especially in treatment retention, according to a study in the October issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals."