What is the difference between UROD and ROD?
What Dr. Gooberman does is better called Ultra-Rapid Opiate Detoxification, or UROD, to distinguish it from Rapid Opiate Detoxification (ROD) [which is also not a great name] which refers to detox procedures in which one takes a patient addicted to heroin on Day 1 and converts him or her into a patient on Naltrexone maintenance over a period of 4-5 days. I think it was first published by Kleber et al at Yale in a setting we would now call Level IID or “intensive outpatient detox.” I could never get the procedure as published by Yale to work. Essentially, in that regimen the patient was given, on day one, 10mg of diazepam and 0.2mg of clonidine, followed after one hour, by an oral dose of Naltrexone (I think 25 or 50mg).
