Vincent Dole, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vincent Dole

American physician

Date of Birth: 18-May-1913

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 01-Aug-2006

Profession: military officer, psychiatrist, chemist, university teacher, biochemist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Vincent Dole (18 May 1913 in Chicago – 1 August 2006) was an American doctor, who, along with his wife Dr Marie Nyswander (died 1986), developed the use of methadone to treat heroin addiction.
Dole and Nyswander, in establishing methadone maintenance treatment (MMT), improved treatment options in addiction medicine which for a century had been based on the conventional view (circa 1965) that narcotic addiction was the result of an intractable moral defect.
His work resulted in the partial re-legalization of opioid maintenance in the United States.
For this contribution he was a recipient of the 1988 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research.