Naltrexone, Vivitrol, Alcohol Anti-Addiction Medications, Vivitrol How It Works

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Vivitrol (Naltrexone) – How It Works- Alcohol Anti Addiction Medication, Medical Detox, Alcohol Detox

The FDA approved Vivitrolin June 2006 for the treatment of alcohol addiction, but the anti addiction medication within the injection – naltrexone – has been approved for use in treating alcohol addiction for over 13 years. However, the problem with taking Naltrexone orally is that patients with any chronic illness, who have to take medications on a daily basis, many times forget or stop taking the anti-addiction medication for a variety of reasons. Alcohol addiction is a chronic medical illness and alcohol addicts are not immune to the same issues consistently experienced by anyone with other chronic medical illnesses (i.e. diabetes) in taking these anti addiction medications on a daily basis.

Addiction researchers hypothesize that Vivitrol (naltrexone) is an alcohol anti addiction medication that works by blocking the interaction or the stimulation of the dopamine system (your body’s main rewarding system) by the alcohol molecule. When you drink alcohol, the alcohol molecules get into your blood stream through your stomach. The molecules, which are toxic to your own cells, travel throughout your various organ systems, killing all kinds of cells as they go. It is when these molecules reach the brain that they stimulate a variety of neuroreceptors with each different set of receptors basically causing different effects. Activation of some receptor systems cause you to get sleepy (or sedated), yet others cause you to stop breathing resulting in death (alcohol overdoes or poisoning). Vivitrol (naltrexone) is thought to block the link between your dopamine system (pleasure or reward system) and your internal endogenous endorphin/enkephalin (opioid) systems.

Vivitrol is made up of molecules that are called microspheres, which are dissolved in a liquid and injected directly into one cheek of the buttocks. The major scientific breakthrough of Vivitrol delivering this very effective alcohol anti addiction medication for 30 days without stopping is a huge advance in battling the devastating, life-threatening disease of alcohol addiction.

Enterhealth creates individualized alcohol addiction treatment and drug addiction rehabilitation plans because we know your unique situation calls for an effective one-of-a-kind solution.

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