Could dopamine be administered to patients with cocaine or heroin addiction?

Deborah C
#1. March 4th, 2010, at 8:32 PM.

exersize does the same thing…

doctorbobf
#2. March 7th, 2010, at 8:53 AM.

It is presumably possible but dopamine is only available intravenously. At low doses, 0.5mcg/kg/min dopamine is used to increase blood flow to the kidneys. At higher doses it causes increased blood pressure in patients with shock. Never heard of it or seen it used for cocaine or heroin addiction.

skanktale
#3. March 7th, 2010, at 8:54 PM.

heroin raises endorphins, not dopamine.
cocaine raises dopamine.
cigarettes raise dopamine.
caffeine raises dopamine

There is a medicine called Levadopa that is for Parkinson’s Disease and it is just that -for Parkinson’s disease. Take a dopamine prophylaxis and it will cause 6 weeks of insanity that is unbearable and it will require hospitalization in a mental ward. Not to mention that it will kill off many -many neurons as excess dopamine does this.

If you on heroin -try methadone. It is the only known way to stop heroin addiction.
If you’re on cocaine I suggest you prey as there is nothing which will stop the cravings. The cravings of cocaine addiction generally last a lifetime.

Only fools mess with cocaine or heroin.

There is an old saying ….”Cocaine, Cocaine, my best friend…they told me you would kill me but they didn’t say when…”
Cocaine kills. It really is that simple.

There is no way to stop the addiction of these two narcotics except avoidance and not using them to begin with. The reason they are illegal is they kill.