Tackling Cocaine Addiction With 2-Drug Combination

A fine-tuned combination of two existing pharmaceutical drugs has shown promise as a potential new therapy for people addicted to cocaine - a therapy that would reduce their craving for the drug and blunt their symptoms of withdrawal. In laboratory experiments at The Scripps Research Institute, the potential therapy, which combines low doses of the drug naltrexone with the drug buprenorphine, made laboratory rats less likely to take cocaine compulsively - a standard preclinical test that generally comes before human trials... via Health News from Medical News Today Read More Here..