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Vincent Dole
American physician (1913-2006) · United States · On the map · Doctors · Died at 93
Vincent Dole was an American doctor, who, along with his wife, Marie Nyswander, developed the use of methadone to treat heroin addiction.
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Dole and Nyswander, in establishing methadone maintenance treatment (MMT), improved treatment options in addiction medicine which for a century had been based on the conventional view that narcotic addiction was the result of an intractable moral defect. His work resulted in the partial re-legalization of opioid maintenance in the United States. For this contribution he was a recipient of the 1970 Canada Gairdner International Award, and the 1988 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research.
