Method for the application of an active substance patch for controlling or alleviating an addiction
AssigneeLTS Lohmann Therapie-Systeme AG
InventorsFrank Becher, Werner Wessling
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Abstract
A method for the application of an active substance patch for controlling or alleviating an addiction such as drug addiction, addiction to pills or analgesia is characterized in that two or more active substance patches are applied simultaneously, sequentially or alternately within a given therapy plan under surveillance of the blood level of the active substance in a way that allows the achievement of an active substance blood level which is high enough for a successful suppression of the addiction and remains constantly effective throughout a useful period of administration.
Claims6
A method of controlling or alleviating addiction or of treating pain in a human patient by applying at least two transdermal therapeutic systems containing a therapeutically effective active substance in a temporally overlapping manner onto the skin of said human patient, wherein initially at least one transdermal therapeutic system containing said active substance is applied for a defined period of several days, and thereafter, before the half-life of the flux of the active substance of the first applied one or more transdermal therapeutic system(s) is reached, another transdermal therapeutic system containing said active substance is applied onto the skin of said human patient.
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