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Marie Nyswander

1919 - 1996

Personal Information

Born: 1919

Died: 1996

Professional Life

developed & popularized the use of methadone for heroin addiction

Treatment, Addiction

1965 - Developed & popularized the use of methadone as treatment for heroin addiction.

* Together with her colleague Dole, Nyswander hypothesized that heroin addiction was a metabolic disease, and that metha...