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Previous Volume 338:464-465 February 12, 1998 Number 7 Next

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People convicted of sexually abusing children are usually incarcerated, a strategy that has not been successful but for which the costs have been staggering ($2,055,528,000 in the United States in 1990¹). In this issue of the Journal, Rösler and Witztum describe the results of a study of the treatment of men with pedophilia and other paraphilias with triptorelin, an agonist analogue of gonadotropin-releasing hormone.² They found that the drug reduced abnormal sexual thoughts and behaviors substantially, presumably as a result of its ability to reduce the secretion of gonadotropin and, therefore, of testosterone. Unfortunately, this was not a randomized, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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