Elite Pharmaceuticals Inc (ELTP)

[Clarendon]

Isradipine

Hypertension drug isradipine may stop drug and alcohol addiction:

http://www.sciencecodex.com/medication_may_stop_drug_and_alcohol_addiction-159917

Some will be able to appreciate the irony of the rat-reference:)

Led by Hitoshi Morikawa, associate professor of neuroscience at The University of Texas at Austin, a team of researchers trained rats to associate either a black or white room with the use of a drug. Subsequently, when the addicted rats were offered the choice of going into either room, they nearly always chose the room they associated with their addiction.

Then one day, the researchers gave the addicted rats a high dose of an antihypertensive drug called isradipine before the rats made their choices. Although rats still preferred the room they associated with their addiction on that day, they no longer showed a preference for it on subsequent days. In fact, the lack of preference persisted in the isradipine-treated group in ways that couldn't be found in a control group -- suggesting the addiction memories were not just suppressed but had gone away entirely