Nyswander, Marie

The use of methadone maintenance for heroin addicts is developed by Rockefeller University researchers Vincent Dole and Marie Nyswander. 

Methadone began to be used as a treatment for heroin addiction in the 1960s. In 1963, Dr. Vincent Dole, an expert in metabolic disorders, and Dr. Marie Nyswander, a psychiatrist who had worked in the U.S. Public Health facility for heroin addicts in Lexington, Kentucky, began... 

Methadone maintenance treatment was established in 1964 in New York City by Vincent Dole and Marie Nyswander. In the initial studies, subjects who were heavily addicted to heroin were evaluated and stabilized on daily methadone doses as inpatients before transfer to an outpatient clinic for continued treatment. With further experience, it was feasible to drop the inpatient phase (65). 

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