Yep, which is why Vivitrol is such a breakthrough. Unlike bupe, it's not an opioid and actually gets people off Rx treatment all together. It's an opioid blocker that shuts down the receptors so you cannot get high. Combined with counseling you get clean and hopefully don't have to take anything ever again. What we are doing is trying to change how you treat opioid addiction. That's exactly what what we're working on. Treat it like a disease, like cancer. Don't just keep giving addicts opioids and stepping them down.
Oh, in that case, I will take your word for it. Instead of actual properly conducted clinical experiments, you know the kind that speaks for itself and doesn't need lobbyists to massage it's message and promote it.
I'm essentially a biopharma schill so have no business casting stones... but describing a long acting formulation of a drug discovered in the 70s and approved in the early 80s as a "breakthrough" with a supporting clinical program that not even SportsBoss would describe as robust is a bit of a stretch.
So you telling me Naltrexone was approved by the FDA based on a single study done in Russia? Really.
have you seen the label? we are talking about its use in opioid dependency right?
I am aware of all this. We are talking about drug addicts. Do you think every drug addict just gets cured? Curious to know how an addict "breaks through" a non opioid that bonds to the receptiors on your brain and turns them off? What happens is they stop the treatment and relapse. Which is part of the problem in this space and why giving them scripts to more opioid is not great when dealing with drug addicts. You feed the addiction and many times they take their bupe and sell it it get herion. So you now have even more opioid flooding the streets. You will never see a drug addict selling vivtrol because you can't do anythING with it. It's not an opioid and has no street value.
You don't see the difference between giving opioid addicts opioids for the rest of their lives or getting them off opioids. Right, same thing. We are talking about drug addicts. There will never be a product that works every time. Vivitrol is the significant breakthrough. If you understand the addiction space in 10 seconds I applaud you because it's complicated stuff. You should quit your job in advertising and go help some people with addiction. Cap tip for the troll, you guys did wonderful work.
Yes I think every drug addict just gets cured... tremendous strawman in play there. And if you are aware of all of that and the lack of data, then why pretend like this is the answer to all things addiction? Plenty of research and experts think otherwise... there isn't even enough data to compare it to other drug mediated approaches yet you think this is the answer for all addicts? Why no comparative studies if its such an enormous breakthrough? The meta analysis of oral naltrexone showed it no better than placebo yet we cant see a single data set comparing vivitriol to an oral? Its great that it has no abuse potential, but that doesn't mean it automatically works better than everything else.
You're telling me that Naltrexone was conclusively shown to be more effective than Bupe? That study doesn't exist. Vivitrol doesn't want it to exist. The long term efficacy of Vivitrol is very much in doubt also- never been tracked. 6 months of less than being 15% better than a PLACEBO on Russian HIV patients was enough for the FDA, I guess. Make it law- Vivitrol posters in every medical office acro$$ the land!!
