Aversive treatment of stimulant abuse

摘要

Psychomotor stimulant addiction in humans is treated by administering to a human patient before or during a hypodopaminergic "crash" following the psychomotor stimulant induced hyperdopaminergic high or within a period of 3 hours to 21 days prior thereto, a dosage of a pharmaceutically active neuroleptic compound effective to produce aversion to any psychomotor stimulant taken within this period.