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Sleep medicine 'can help ice addicts quit' [AU]
    #7701094 - 11/30/07 10:20 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Sleep medicine 'can help ice addicts quit'
November 30, 2007 - abc.net.au

Australian researchers say they have discovered a way to rehabilitate people addicted to the drug 'ice'.

In what they call a world first, researchers from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre say they have discovered that Modafinil, a medication currently used to treat sleep disorders, can help ice addicts quit.

The discovery of Modafinil's potential for fighting ice addiction comes after much media attention on what some experts say is an ice epidemic.

The latest national figures show that as many as 70,000 people use ice - otherwise known as crystal methamphetamine hydrochloride.

Researcher James Shearer explains how ice affects the brain.

"What ice, or crystal, does is it actually hooks into your reward system in the brain, and the reward system is designed so that you can recognise positive stimuli, remember them, act on them," he said.

"But by overdoing it, by chronic use, you end up with a depletion of these neurotransmitters."

He says Modafinil is normally used to treat sleeping problems like narcolepsy or shift work sleep disorder, and acts on the same parts of the brain as ice does.

"Modafinil actually works in those parts of the brain to kind of restore areas of those neurotransmitters," he said.

"So that's what we think kind of reinforces the addiction in people, because they've got this neurotransmitter imbalance, as soon as they stop using ice, or crystal, they go into withdrawal.

"So what we're hoping, by using Modafinil, is that they will be able to resist those kind of relapse situations."

What this means is that Modafinil does not necessarily stop someone wanting to use ice, but will help people who want to stop using it.

"As with all dependence - whether it's tobacco, alcohol, anything - you do need the person themselves to be quite committed to making changes, because otherwise these drugs don't work at all," he said.

"So it's really a supportive drug for someone who's making an effort to quit."

Mr Shearer says the finding is ground-breaking.

"This drug has been tested in the [United] States with cocaine, with very good results," he said.

"What we've found in this study is we've exactly replicated those results from the US, because cocaine, methamphetamine, they're all stimulants and they actually do work in the same way in the brain."

"So we're all very excited and, frankly, relieved that we've actually found a drug which helps."

The researchers now plan to do a larger study to confirm their results.

If Modafinil begins to be used in the general community, it could be prescribed by doctors, rather than drug clinics. That's because, unlike something like methadone, it would not be classed as a drug of addiction.

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Re: Sleep medicine 'can help ice addicts quit' [AU] [Re: veggie]
    #7702050 - 12/01/07 08:35 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

man if there are 70,000 ice users in australia, there must be almost a million here in the states. Ice, Ice, Baby Too cold... Too cold. Either way, its funny that they are finding alternate uses for widely used medicines, zoloft to revive coma patients, sleep medicine for amphetamine withdrawal, cannabis for... oh yeah wait, everything.

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Re: Sleep medicine 'can help ice addicts quit' [AU] [Re: hooksbooks]
    #7702397 - 12/01/07 11:07 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Have they considered Ibogaine therapy? From what I've read, Ibogaine is the most powerful and effective tool for addiction.

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Re: Sleep medicine 'can help ice addicts quit' [AU] [Re: Grylls]
    #7707309 - 12/02/07 04:30 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Ibogaine is still illegal, though, I have no idea why, considering its effects are generally nightmarish and altogether unenjoyable.

Plus, there's so much good to come of it. Anything that can help someone kick a habit that's destroying is a good thing in my book.


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