It’s the magic drug for hard drinkers that has an 80 per cent success rate – so why is this drug so under-prescribed?

Naltrexone is an opioid antagonist which blocks the dopamine reward you get from alcohol. It doesn’t reduce any of its other effects, so you will still feel “drunk” – it just won’t be ...

Livengrin stakes its reputation on bold, advanced studies when it comes to possible solutions to alcohol and drug dependency.

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 ...

For those struggling with addiction and substance abuse, medication-assisted recovery is an option. Dr. Drew Blackstock, an addictionologist at North Medical Center-Tupelo regularly treats individuals ...

One is very old (disulfiram was approved in 1951), most are expensive (injectable naltrexone costs $1,100-$1,200 per monthly dose), and all have limited to moderate efficacy, according to a study.

A luxury industry has grown around helping wealthy drug addicts kick their habit, but patients say recovery takes more than ...

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.