Form of Naltrexone Implants
Naltrexone implants, Naltrexone depot pellets, to be more precise, are the most popular form of heroin blockers nowadays. There is one form of Naltrexone implants with different duration:
- Australian implants for 6 or 12 months are based on biopolymers, meaning that Naltrexone molecules bind to biopolymers slowly releasing the medication into the blood stream of a patient providing a long term, gradual protection of all opiate receptors: slow released Naltrexone.
- American pharmacists use magnesium stearate. Triamcinolonewhich is another important component of Naltrexone implants. It’s a hormonal medicine, long-acting synthetic corticosteroid, for treating inflammations and allergies, among others. Triamcinolone protects patient’s body from allergies, reaction of rejection and local inflammation since the implant is a foreign body. The quantity, Naltrexone dosage contained in the implant is very important. Depending on Naltrexone dosages, an implant can have an effective length of 3, 5, 6, 9 up to 12 months.
Please watch this short video about the form of Naltrexone implants, presented by Dr V. Shubaev, a specialist in psychiatry and addiction medicine.
HOW IS NALTREXONE IMPLANT FITTED?
The process of this Naltrexone implant form fitting involves a minor surgical intervention, very brief, easy and simple:
-A patient lies down on a surgical table, and a small skin site is prepared for the intervention. The placement site can be in the lower abdomen site, which is for the most of patients cosmetically acceptable, a belly button site, where no stitches or scars are visible, shoulder or some other site.
-Skin is prepared by antiseptic solution. Local anesthetics is given prior to making a minor incision up to 1 inch (2cm).
-Then a special channel, pocket is made where naltrexone implant is entered by a special syringe.
Form of Naltrexone implants might be as a tablet or cylindrical or small pellet depending on a manufacturer. It is placed under skin in a very gentle and compact manner.
-Afterwards two, sometimes three stitches are added under a sterile wound dressing and it's done. A few minutes later, a patient may stand up, say goodbye to the surgeon and easily, on his own two feet heads home.
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The follow up procedure is to take care of the implant site and wound dressings because you want to avoid any mechanical effects or impacts. Keep the wound dressings dry and see that a trained nurse changes them on daily basis.
You will be able to continue living a normal life afterwards. The only important moment is that any kind of pressure of the muscles around the implant site must be limited for a few weeks. For example, if this Naltrexone implant form is placed under the abdomen skin, lifting heavy weight is restricted. Some intensive sports or other activities involving abdominal area are limited as well.
In such a way, having that minor injection and subcutaneous implant placement once, one is protected for a couple of months. Very small dosages of Naltrexone are sufficient to block opiate receptors. Clinical trials have proven that 1 nanogram of Naltrexone to 1ml of blood is efficient to provide Naltrexone blockade.