NIDA Launches First Large-Scale National Study to Treat Addiction to Prescription Pain Medications – March – 07, 2007

Posted by National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases on March 7th, 2007 at 02:14pm

Researchers funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, are launching the first large-scale national study evaluating a treatment for addiction to prescription opioid analgesics (i.e., painkillers) such as Vicodin and OxyContin. NIDA’s National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN) is conducting the multi-site study, known as the Prescription Opiate Addiction Treatment Study (POATS).

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