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A $2-million state appropriation to pay for a controversial addiction treatment regimen is now being reexamined by Texas officials, the Dallas Morning News reported Jan. 20.

Texas Rep. Jerry Madden, chairman of the House Corrections Committee, requested the funding for Prometa, a cocktail of drugs touted as a treatment for methamphetamine and other drug addiction but not backed by much research or Food and Drug Administration approval.

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A controversial program in Pierce County, Wash., that referred drug-court offenders to the Prometa treatment regimen has been shut down over concerns that claims of treatment success had been exaggerated, MSNBC reported Jan. 11.

For example, program officials didn’t account for no-shows and dropouts, and declared patients “drug free” simply if they did not test positive for drugs in the 60 days prior to the end of the program.

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