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Cortisol levels during chronic naltrexone maintenance treatment in ex-opiate addicts

  • Thomas R Kosten
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    Address reprint requests to Dr.T.R. Kosten, APT Foundation, Suite 1A, 504 Howard Avenue, New Haven, CT 06510.
    Affiliations
    From the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, and the Connecticut Mental Health Center, Drug Dependence Unit, New Haven, CT USA

    the Laboratory of Biochemical Endocrinology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY USA
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  • Mary-Jeanne Kreek
    Affiliations
    From the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, and the Connecticut Mental Health Center, Drug Dependence Unit, New Haven, CT USA

    the Laboratory of Biochemical Endocrinology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY USA
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  • Jayanthi Ragunath
    Affiliations
    From the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, and the Connecticut Mental Health Center, Drug Dependence Unit, New Haven, CT USA

    the Laboratory of Biochemical Endocrinology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY USA
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  • Herbert D Kleber
    Affiliations
    From the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, and the Connecticut Mental Health Center, Drug Dependence Unit, New Haven, CT USA

    the Laboratory of Biochemical Endocrinology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY USA
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