Rimonabant, drug treatment pill will be soon available

Thu 18 Jan 07, 8:39 p.m.

Hi All,

Rimonabant, the drug treatment pill will be soon available on the market

di Valerio Di Paola
foto internet - italia 14/01/2007
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A pill to stop smoking marijuana. As happens in science fictions, you have just to swallow it and your bad habit, boredom, conscious choices or, sometimes, real pains will be suddenly removed. It is the stake of Nida, the US Institute of Drug Abuse, which have decided to implement an experimental health record with Rimonabant, the first stop smoking marijuana pill. Now Federsed, the Italian Federation Services for Drugs and other Addictions, decided to grasp the challenge too. This federation, which includes some of the existing national services for addictions treatment, has recently come back from a trip to US to know the Nida Experts and to "formalise an agreed protocol concerning potential collaboration on clinical research focused on addictions prevention". Until now, says Alfio Lucchini, head of Federsed, nothing has been taken for granted: Rimonabant is still waiting the permission to be used in such different way in US, permission to be granted by the Food and Drug Administration, the agency in charge of medical drugs circulation in US. The reason lays in the fact that this pill is, besides a drug treatment, a "fat" remedy. For complete article go to:

http://www.rivistaonline.com/Rivista/ArticoliPrimoPiano.aspx?id=3211