• Cyclazocine is a mixed opioid agonist/antagonist related to dezocine, pentazocine and phenazocine. (wikipedia.org)
  • After discriminated responding was stable, stimulus generalization tests with narcotic analgesics and antagonists showed that the stimulus properties of morphine generalized to methadone and meperidine, and partially to pentazocine, all of which produce morphine-like subjective effects in humans. (erowid.org)
  • NARCAN is indicated for the complete or partial reversal of opioid depression, including respiratory depression, induced by natural and synthetic opioids, including propoxyphene, methadone and certain mixed agonist-antagonist analgesics: nalbuphine, pentazocine, butorphanol, and cyclazocine. (techarp.com)
  • A psychiatrist who has had experience with both methadone and antagonist maintenance programs contrasts 'the relaxed, jovial atmosphere of a methadone ward,' where patients are free of the postaddiction syndrome, with 'the tension, frustration, and anxiety that characterize a cyclazocine ward. (druglibrary.org)
  • Research during the 1960s and 1970s into the possible use of cyclazocine for management of pain, and later for assisting treatment of narcotic addiction was severely hampered by the drug's psychotomimetic, dysphoric, and hallucinatory effects. (wikipedia.org)
  • The most recent study of cyclazocine, reported in the International Journal of the Addiction, 3 in 1971, indicates that of 186 addicts offered cyclazocine, 33 accepted, of whom 11 were believed to be abstinent twenty months later. (druglibrary.org)
  • Research into the use of cyclazocine for the treatment of bipolar patients with depression was undertaken by Fink and colleagues (1970). (wikipedia.org)
  • The study suggests, but does not prove, that the few patients who accept cyclazocine do significantly better than similar patients who attempt abstinence without cyclazocine. (druglibrary.org)
  • Research during the 1960s and 1970s into the possible use of cyclazocine for management of pain, and later for assisting treatment of narcotic addiction was severely hampered by the drug's psychotomimetic, dysphoric, and hallucinatory effects. (wikipedia.org)
  • Research into the use of cyclazocine for the treatment of bipolar patients with depression was undertaken by Fink and colleagues (1970). (wikipedia.org)