Although it's been used since the 1980s, naltrexone remains a relatively unknown treatment for alcohol dependency. Costing around £3 per pill, the drug blocks the "euphoric and sedative effects ...

Carbon County prison officials have questions regarding a medical assistance treatment program at the correctional facility after learning a grant-funded injectable drug to help curb alcohol and ...

Naltrexone, in contrast, is used under medical supervision to support long-term recovery from opioids and alcohol after ...

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

Disulfiram is somewhat more widely used than the newer drug naltrexone, particularly among Medicaid recipients. The number of prescriptions for medications to manage alcoholism were higher among ...

Patients who receive inpatient treatment are far more likely to be prescribed life-saving addiction medications, a new study ...

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 ...