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Fluoxetine treatment for dually diagnosed methadone maintained opioid addicts: a pilot study
I Petrakis1, K Carroll, L Gordon
1Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Journal of Addictive Diseases
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
Twenty-two methadone maintained opioid addicts with either depression or persistent cocaine use received open label fluoxetine in addition to their methadone. Fluoxetine significantly decreased depressive symptoms from pre-treatment to endpoint in subjects with depression, while its effect on substance use was inconclusive.