T F A widely used treatment for heroin addiction involves substituting one addictive drug for another. (p.

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T F A widely used treatment for heroin addiction involves substituting one addictive drug for another. (p. 320)

????1..1..1 ???? What drawbacks, if any, do you see in using therapeutic drugs to treat drug addiction? A variety of therapeutic drugs are used to treat drug addiction, including disulfiram for alcoholism, nicotine replacement for smoking dependence, antidepressants for cocaine dependence, and the most controversial of all, the opioid methadone to treat dependence on the opioid heroin. It may seem ironic, indeed paradoxical, to use drugs to treat problems with drugs.

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Abnormal Psychology In A Changing World

ISBN: 107044

9th Edition

Authors: Jeffrey S Nevid, Spence A Rathus, Beverly Greene

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