Experimental drug helps to treat cocaine addiction

An experimental drug aiming at reward paths in the brain helps cocaine -addicted people to reduce drug use and can treat other substance use disorders.

There are drugs to treat alcoholism and opioid use disorder, but none of them have been approved for dependencies of stimuli such as cocaine and methamphetamine. These drugs contribute roughly to half overdose deaths In the USA. “So this is a giant medical need that is not met,” he says Ricardo DolmetschTempero Bio, a pharmaceutical company based in California.

Drugs like cocaine are quite addictive because…