cyclazocine

[ sahy-klaz-uh-seen, -sin, sahy-kluh-zoh-seen, -sin ]

noun

, Pharmacology.

1. a synthetic nonnarcotic and nonaddictive analgesic, C 18 H 25 NO, that blocks the effects of morphine or morphinelike drugs: used to treat heroin or morphine addiction.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cyclazocine¹

Contraction and alteration of the chemical name

Example Sentences

Called cyclazocine, the drug had been tested by Dr. William P. Martin in the federal Ad diction Research Center at Lexington, Ky. There, 15 addicts taking oral doses of cyclazocine twice a day found that six times their usual narcotic dose was required to give them any euphoric effect at all.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cyclazocine, which is itself nonaddictive, apparently has no serious side effects after tolerance is built up, and substantially reduces the physiological impact of morphine-based narcotics, probably by preventing the morphine from reaching receptor sites in the nervous system.

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Cyclazocine has no psychological effects, but Jaffe and Brill wondered if it were not possible to use it to help break behavioral patterns.

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