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(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ATLANTA–What is the best intervention window for someone struggling with cocaine addiction? When he or she is in the middle of a drug binge, or after a period of abstinence when there is temptation to fall back into old habits?
An experimental drug called nepicastat shows promise in helping treat cocaine addiction, based on its ability to stave off relapse-like behavior in animals trained to give themselves cocaine. The National Institute on Drug Abuse is beginning a clinical trial testing nepicastat with cocaine-dependent humans this spring.
The animal results were published online this week by the journalNeuropsychopharmacology.
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