Titrated clonidine? Yeah.

Evidence suggests that detoxification from heroin and other opioids can be facilitated using dose-tapered opioid agonists and two non-opioid drugs, namely clonidine and lofexidine.

Meetings attended: Speaker at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime expert meeting on amphetamine-type stimulants, Vienna, 1996; speaker at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Advanced Study Institute on the biosocial bases of violence, Rhodes, Greece, 1996; participant at the National Institute on Drug Abuse consensus conference concerning detoxification with alpha-2-agonists, clonidine and iofexidine, Bethesda, United States, 1998; annual meeting of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology, Pisa, 2003; speaker at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime meeting on young people and drug abuse: prevention and treatment, Stockholm, 2003; expert at the EMCDDA meeting on targeted prevention, family prevention and community prevention, Lisbon, 2003; speaker at Andean Parliament meeting on anti-drug policies, Guayaquil, Ecuador, 2003; speaker at meeting organized by EMCDDA and the European Parliament on drug use among young people, Malaga, Spain, 2003.