New Lost Women of Science Podcast: "The Doctor and the Fix" - Listen Now!

*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* [View this email in your browser]( Exciting News: [Season 5 is Live!]( [Lost Women of Science](DJX/TURnTjVwNTNpcVJKaDJSdi8xbStmbFFTbVEyZit2dmF5UmRySkNSaHkrRzVKMnZIcTBxUG5FQ1pUMVo4L0F6aGJpOGxhSkZBZngvMkRFOU9oT2swbkRNM2tHTUpMRWZUOUY0TE9WSzhwQ0U9S0/) introduces “[The Doctor and the Fix: How Marie Nyswander Changed the Landscape of Addiction](.” B3/TURnTjVwNTNpcVJKaDJSdi8xbStmbFFTbVEyZit2dmF5UmRySkNSaHkrRzVKMnZIcTBxUG5FQ1pUMVo4L0F6aGJpOGxhSkZBZngvMkRFOU9oT2swbkRNM2tHTUpMRWZUOUY0TE9WSzhwQ0U9S0/ In 1965, a team of doctors at [Rockefeller University](sX/TURnTjVwNTNpcVJKaDJSdi8xbStmbFFTbVEyZit2dmF5UmRySkNSaHkrRzVKMnZIcTBxUG5FQ1pUMVo4L0F6aGJpOGxhSkZBZngvMkRFOU9oT2swbkRNM2tHTUpMRWZUOUY0TE9WSzhwQ0U9S0/) announced what sounded like a miracle—they’d found a treatment for heroin addiction that actually seemed to work. For nearly two years, the researchers had been running an experiment with a small group of men, aged 19 to 37, who’d been using heroin for several years—and the results were astonishing. Men who’d been transfixed by heroin cravings for years, who had tried to quit before and failed, were suddenly able to return to their lives. One started painting. Another finished high school and got a scholarship to go to college. The key to these transformations was a drug called methadone. But the treatment was controversial, and one of the doctors on the team already had a bit of a reputation as a bold, and possibly even reckless, defier of convention: Marie Nyswander. This season, [we bring you her story]( and the radical treatment that would upend the landscape of addiction for decades to come. [Listen now]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [LinkedIn]( [Instagram]( [Website]( [Support Lost Women of Science](E~b7CR/TURnTjVwNTNpcVJKaDJSdi8xbStmbFFTbVEyZit2dmF5UmRySkNSaHkrRzVKMnZIcTBxUG5FQ1pUMVo4L0F6aGJpOGxhSkZBZngvMkRFOU9oT2swbkRNM2tHTUpMRWZUOUY0TE9WSzhwQ0U9S0/) Our website is: []( To view this email as a web page, [go here](. You received this email because you opted-in to receive email from Scientific American. To ensure delivery please add specialoffers@email.scientificamerican.com to your address book. [Unsubscribe]( [Email Preferences]( [Privacy Policy](VR3h2/TURnTjVwNTNpcVJKaDJSdi8xbStmbFFTbVEyZit2dmF5UmRySkNSaHkrRzVKMnZIcTBxUG5FQ1pUMVo4L0F6aGJpOGxhSkZBZngvMkRFOU9oT2swbkRNM2tHTUpMRWZUOUY0TE9WSzhwQ0U9S0/) [Contact Us](