05-23-2016, 01:12 PM
(05-23-2016, 11:55 AM)FirePlaces Wrote: Repurposing old medications. I like that. For the most part I always lean towards the older medications as I feel they are safer, side effect being more known, etc...
That's how a lot of people feel, myself included. That's largely the idea behind this field of work. I have a huge interest in GABA related treatments and have been pushing for a few different studies to be considered regarding baclofen and related drugs.
We ran a study last year involving clonodine and baclofen for opiate withdrawal (there's a bit more detail involved but I believe there were several done worldwide last year so I'm not going to go into specifics about the specific areas we were focused on for some order of anonymity).
The results were extremely encouraging so I think I may begin pushing for more studies along those lines. I REEEEAAALLY want to convince them to run a phenibut study. I'd like to see the results in a clinical setting as opposed to only having anecdotal evidence to provide.