Methadone Rehabilitation

Question by Dee: whats the name of that new pill , it’s supose to help people beat there addiction to precription drugs ??
my mom is hooked on pain killers ,,,very badly ,,,,talkin major pill head here …
she was telling me she seen on cbs a orange pill that you stick under your tongue , and it is supose to help people kick there addction to pain killers …can anyone tell me the name of this pill ??? dose it really exist ??

Best answer:

Answer by Jack H
An opiate antagonist, Naltrexone (Revia/Depade, or for extended-release, Vivitrol) is a substance that helps block the effects of the chemicals commonly found in pain-killing medication.
This medication is recommended for detoxifications, and it prevents both effects of the drug, and lingering bodily cravings.
Ibogaine (derived from an African plant) is another opiate receptor blocker, and actually breaks down the withdrawal process from most depressants (like painkillers) to mere hours. A drug derived it- 18-methyoxycoronaridine, is still in the works, but has high promise for taking care of addictions and withdrawal process.

If you do end up taking either of these, just be careful your mother doens’t end up relapsing. A denial of the chemical may sensitize her body to the drug, and if after a while, she decides to pop another, OD’ing will be far more likely.

Answer by lotus4yoga
Well, it’s not all that new…and I’m not sure exactly what you’re referring to but the possibilities are: Suboxone – this is something that can be prescribed by a doctor who has been certified by a special course (easy certification though) and it can be used as a detox but more frequently as something you take like people take methadone. The thing about suboxone is that you don’t have the stigma of going to a methadone clinic, etc. It’s a combination medication with a small part of it blocking the ability to get “high.” The bupenorphene part allows your brain to function “normally” (for you, well, I mean for the drug user) because once someone has been on opioids for a long period of time, the brain actually changes. So you can stop using, but you still won’t seem like “yourself.” (This would have to be a fairly long period of time for this to happen.)
It could be Revia which is simply the naltrexone part – same thing as that “small” part of suboxone – it blocks the ability to get high.
There actually is a substance that is not legal in the US called ibogaine (not sure if I spelled it right) that supposedly allows people to detox from opioids safely and then they don’t crave the pain killers later. (Some people never again; some people have the treatment again but much later – like months later.) It’s a hallucinogen that people describe as allowing them to see their lives in total, with traumas, etc. but without the emotional attachment, and once they recognize and accept whatever they were avoiding with drug abuse, they can stop. There is still on-going research on the substance but because of its checkered past, it’s probably never going to be approved by the government. (Well, not in my lifetime, anyway.)