Vincent Dole
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title:
Vincent Dole
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Vincent Dole was an American doctor, who, along with his wife, Marie Nyswander, developed the use of methadone to treat heroin addiction. Dole and Nyswander, in establishing methadone maintenance treatment (MMT), improved treatment options in addiction medicine which for a century had been based on the conventional view that narcotic addiction was the result of an intractable moral defect. His work resulted in the partial re-legalization of opioid maintenance in the United States. For this contr
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American doctor
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Dole
date created:
2006-08-08T17:23:24Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T05:10:46Z
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