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Tower of treatment, methadone pioneer Kreek dies at age 84
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.33028
Subject(s) - kindness , methadone , generosity , heroin , addiction , psychiatry , medicine , art , psychology , gerontology , theology , philosophy , drug
Mary Jeanne Kreek, M.D., loved by patients and revered by clinicians and researchers, died March 27 at age 84. With Vincent Dole, M.D., and Marie Nyswander, M.D., Kreek, as a young researcher in their lab, helped discover methadone as a treatment for opioid use disorder. Until her death, she was the Patrick E. and Beatrice M. Haggerty Professor and a senior attending physician at The Rockefeller University. Her landmark studies focused on heroin addiction. Her work — and her kindness and emotional generosity to all she came in contact with — will be sorely missed.