[exjunky]

Thanks for all of your comments. Now that I've looked around I feel silly starting a new thread when this has been discussed at length just around the corner. Oh well, it's an important topic, so it deserves repetition.

I also love the principle that it works on. The discovery of partial agonists is one of the great advances of modern pharmacology. For all the talk you hear about personality traits and the psychology behind addiction, when you get right down to it, the brain operates on a chemical infrastructure. It only makes sense that if the brain has a chemical imbalance you can restore normalcy by introducing more chemicals. People who are repulsed by that notion haven't really thought the situation through very clearly, IMHO.