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Proposed addiction treatment successful, safe in second small trial.

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2004 DEC 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A second, small clinical trial of a proposed addiction treatment led by investigators at New York University (NYU) School of Medicine and the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory has produced favorable results in the treatment of long-term addiction to methamphetamine and/or cocaine, with no visual side effects in any of the 30 patients enrolled.

This latest research on GVG (gamma-vinyl GABA), led by Jonathan Brodie, MD, PhD, the Marvin Stern professor of psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine and the study's lead author, and Stephen Dewey, PhD, of Brookhaven National Laboratory, was conducted at a…

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