Naltrexone is cheap and has the potential to stop dangerous drinking, so why is it not used everywhere? Sophie Gallagher ...

Naltrexone is under development for the treatment of alcohol, opioid addiction and methamphetamine use disorder (MUD). It is a long acting implantable naltrexone implant, administered by the ...

Despite its effectiveness, though, naltrexone is hardly ever prescribed. In the U.S., approximately 1 percent of people with ...

Average age of disulfiram users was 45.3 years, and that of naltrexone users was 43.3 years. For a small percentage of persons in the database, we could not indicate their region.

In our ongoing look at treating substance abuse in America, we turn to the most commonly used drug, and one of the deadliest: alcohol. Drinking kills more Americans every year than opioids or any ...

disulfiram is effective at increasing consecutive days of abstinence from alcohol. Naltrexone is an opioid receptor antagonist that has been shown to reduce craving for alcohol in a subset of ...

Naltrexone is Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved to treat alcohol use disorder (AUD) and opioid use disorder (OUD). It is available as an orally administered tablet and a long-acting ...

For others, it reduces alcohol consumption and the cravings that trigger binge use or relapses. Naltrexone is one of three standard FDA-approved medications currently on the market to treat AUD.

Anti-obesity medication use was associated with reduced alcohol consumption among patients in a telehealth medical weight ...