How to Use naltrexone in a Sentence

naltrexone

noun

• The two drugs used in the trial were injectable naltrexone and oral bupropion.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 13 Jan. 2021
• Of that amount, $15.7 million would go to purchases of drugs used to treat opioid addiction, such as methadone and naltrexone.
  — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 17 Jan. 2018
• When naltrexone is used to treat addiction in pill form, it's prescribed at 50 milligrams.
  — Alex Smith, Kaiser Health, chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2019
• The drugs used in MAT—such as buprenorphine, methadone, or naltrexone—help manage cravings and withdrawal.
  — Laura Hilgers, Health.com, 9 Nov. 2021
• The three medications approved by the FDA are buprenorphine, methadone and naltrexone.
  — Melba Newsome, Scientific American, 17 Nov. 2022
• Mikhael may prescribe low-dose naltrexone to treat a patient who has fibromyalgia.
  — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 7 June 2023
• The center played a role in the federal approval of two drugs used to treat chronic alcoholism, naltrexone and acamprosate.
  — Michael Walsh, courant.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• And a final group received both naltrexone and rimonabant—and these subjects saw no boost at all.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 9 Dec. 2020
• Vivitrol, an injection of the drug naltrexone, is meant to help a patient stay sober after detox by blocking the effects of opioids.
  — Washington Post, 3 May 2017
• About 6 percent of patients were on the opioid blocker, naltrexone (brand name Vivitrol) but often for just one month.
  — Martha Bebinger, Washington Post, 19 June 2018
• Drugs currently on the market that are used to treat opioid use disorder, like naltrexone and buprenorphine, bind to opioid receptors in the brain.
  — Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
• Unlike naltrexone, the other two drugs also deliver a little bit of their own painkilling effect.
  — Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 14 Apr. 2018
• Fans of naltrexone as treatment also point to its lack of street value as another advantage over buprenorphine and methadone.
  — Freep.com, 21 Jan. 2022
• Drugs such as buprenorphine, morphine and naltrexone should be used instead, Pacula said.
  — Carla K. Johnson, The Denver Post, 10 June 2019
• Millions would be spent on methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone, the three drugs that help people recover from heroin addiction.
  — Lawrence Mower, miamiherald, 7 Mar. 2018
• Few have openly embraced the medicines, which can also include methadone or naltrexone (also known as Vivitrol).
  — Chiara Eisner, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2020
• Then Dr. Aronne added a drug that combines bupropion, an antidepressant, and naltrexone, a drug used to combat cravings for drugs like opioids.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2016
• Drugs like buprenorphine, morphine, and naltrexone should be used instead, Pacula said.
  — Carla K. Johnson, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2019
• Perhaps this is why naltrexone seems to be a favorite among some of America’s drug-court judges, who may view withdrawal as its own form of redemptive punishment.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2021
• Buprenorphine, along with methadone and naltrexone, is one of the medications accepted as the gold standard of treatment for opioid addiction.
  — German Lopez, Vox, 7 Sep. 2018
• There are three drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration for opioid addiction: buprenorphine, methadone and naltrexone.
  — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
• In addition, the new study could not determine how the bupropion-naltrexone regimen might benefit people over terms longer than just six to 12 weeks.
  — Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2021
• More than 20 counties in Alabama have no opioid treatment program where patients can get access to methadone, buprenorphine or naltrexone, the three drugs approved by the FDA to treat addiction.
  — al, 17 Nov. 2022
• That's where opioid antagonists, like naltrexone and naloxone, come in.
  — Sarah Fielding, Health.com, 19 Nov. 2021
• The best evidence is with naltrexone or acamprosate, both of which seem to target the underlying mechanisms of addiction.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 14 Apr. 2023
• There's already a lack of medical providers who prescribe buprenorphine and two other opioid substitutes, methadone and naltrexone.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
• And naltrexone suppresses the opioid system, which can reduce cravings in both alcoholics and opiate users.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2023
• It can be used with methadone or buprenorphine (Suboxone) or naloxone (Narcan) or naltrexone (Vivitrol).
  — Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
• One of the challenges of using naltrexone to treat opioid addiction is that, because of the way the medication works in the brain, people can’t have used opioids for several days before getting the injection.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 13 Jan. 2021
• The drug was also tolerable and safe among the study participants who took it—no serious adverse events were identified with naltrexone use.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 22 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Aug 2024