STAGE 5. Defining the action plan

What steps should be completed?

Step 1: Specify intervention actions

EVIDENCE ON PHARMACOLOGICAL TREATMENT PROGRAMMES

COCAINE / AMPHETAMINES

Despite various attempts (including the use of dopamine agonists, such as amantadine, bromocriptine and pergolide), there is currently no pharmacological treatment with proven efficacy in addiction to cocaine or other stimulant drugs, such as amphetamines.1,2 However, using disulfiram to treat people dependent on cocaine seems promising.3

 

References:

1 Terán A, Cassette L, Climent B. (2008). Cocaína. Guías clínicas Socidrogalcohol basadas en la evidencia científica [Cocaine. Sociodrogalcohol evidence-based clinical guides]. Valencia: Socidrogalcohol.

2 Srisurapanont M et al. (2008). Tratamiento para la dependencia y el abuso de anfetaminas [Treatment for amphetamine dependence and abuse]. In: La Biblioteca Cochrane Plus, 2008, No. 4. Oxford: Update Software Ltd. (Revisión traducida de The Cochrane Library, 2008 Issue 3. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.). Mattick RP et al. Buprenorphine maintenance versus placebo or methadone maintenance for opioid dependence. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2008, Issue 2. Art. No.: CD002207

3 Pani et al. (2010). Disulfiram for the treatment of cocaine dependence. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Issue 1. Art. No.: CD007024. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007024.pub2.