NALTREXONE
- What is Naltrexone?
- How does Naltrexone work?
- Are there any downsides to Naltrexone?
Naltrexone is a medical revolution in the treatment of opiate and alcohol addiction. Everyone who has tried to stay clean knows how difficult it can be. Fortunately, nowadays there is Naltrexone — a chemical protection against relapse; a medication that reliably protects against returning to some drugs and alcohol.
HOW MUCH DOES AN IMPLANT COST?
Naltrexone is a medication designed to protect our endorphin (opioid) receptors by completely blocking the pleasurable effects of opioid drugs and alcohol. It prevents the usual euphoria and stops people from getting “high” or wanting to continue and enhance the effects of narcotics and alcohol.
Hundreds of our patients have reported that Naltrexone reduces cravings for opiates, alcohol, and cocaine from the very first days of treatment. More precisely, it works by blocking the brain receptors responsible for the ecstatic drive triggered by alcohol, narcotics, and similar substances.
Naltrexone is not a painkiller and has no other recognised benefits apart from blocking the effects of alcohol and opioid drugs (including heroin) in almost all people. In addition, it significantly reduces interest in cocaine in more than 80% of our patients.
What Happens If You Take Heroin While Having the Implant?
If you have this medication in your system and take an opiate drug, you will not get high and heroin, for example, won’t produce its usual effects. Additionally, if you are currently dependent on any opiate, taking Naltrexone will trigger strong withdrawal symptoms.
Therefore, you must be free from heroin for at least 7 days, or from methadone for 21 days, or undergo a medical detox (heroin or methadone) at a detox facility before the implant can be fitted.
You may not drink alcohol for 3 days either take cocaine for the same period of time.
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HOW EXACTLY DOES IT WORK?
Drugs such as morphine, methadone, Substitol, Subutex, and heroin produce their effects by stimulating receptors known as opioid receptors. The stimulation of these receptors is responsible for the pain relief and pleasurable sensations caused by these drugs. These receptors also appear to play a role in the pleasure response triggered during alcohol consumption. Opioid receptors are located in the brain and central nervous system, as well as in the intestines — which is why narcotic drugs often cause constipation, as they stimulate opioid receptors in the intestines and slow down their normal movement.
Naltrexone blocks opioid receptors so they cannot be stimulated by opiates such as heroin, methadone, or morphine. It does not activate these receptors; it simply prevents them from being stimulated. To use an analogy, if opioid receptors are like the keys on a piano, then Naltrexone is the pharmacological equivalent of closing the cover over the keys.
Forms of Naltrexone: pills, injections and implants.
Naltrexone has several positive effects:
It protects all opioid receptors, not allowing opiate drug molecules to reach them, which prevents the progress of addiction or relapse.
NALTREXONE "reminds" patients that opiates can no longer give them "the buzz." Therefore, using heroin becomes pointless. This medication promotes greater tranquillity and self-confidence, reduces cravings and nervous tension, and significantly diminishes psychological dependence on opiate drugs.
It induces greater tranquillity and self-confidence, eliminates cravings and nervous tension, and significantly reduces psychological dependence on opiate drugs. Its use causes no withdrawal-related negative consequences when administered.
What else can Naltrexone do for you?
It stimulates regeneration of one’s own inner "pleasure system" and release of endorphins - natural hormones of well-being, as well as renewal of receptors. The process of emotional recovery is quicker due to this medication.
It reduces the degree of intoxication and interest in alcohol, cocaine, cannabis and other psychoactive substances. This medication was approved by the FDA, even in the treatment of alcohol addiction. There are scientific studies that show that it helps in controlling behavioral addictions such as gambling and shopaholic.
It improves immune system. It is highly desirable to strengthen immune system after detoxification from heroin. Naltrexone is used in the treatment of multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases. Its application has also been started in oncology centers.
Naltrexone maintenance advantages compared to substitution programme with Methadone, Suboxone, Substitol, etc.
- Naltrexone enables a return to a clean life without heroin and synthetic opioid drugs.
- It promotes rehabilitation of the brain’s endorphin system, i.e., secretion of one’s well-being hormones.
- It is not addictive; there are no withdrawal symptoms upon discontinuation of Naltrexone, and it has no psychoactive effects.
Naltrexone maintenance limitations:
- Requires a patient’s responsible decision to maintain abstinence.
- Naltrexone is not covered by health insurance (prices of heroin blockers)
