does this block opiates like suboxone? i forgot i took one today and i just ate half a fentanyl patch and no effects -_-
I did a quick search on Wiki and found this: "While some patients do well with the oral formulation, there is a drawback in that it must be taken daily, and a patient whose cravings become overwhelming can obtain opioid intoxication simply by skipping a dose before resuming abuse. Due to this issue, the usefulness of oral naltrexone in opioid dependence is limited by the low retention in treatment."
I just got out of treatment a a few people i was in with were on naltrexone and it helped them immensely with cravings. However as happydude said the oral method is pretty easy to overcome if a person on naltrexone decided that they didnt want to continue and went back to using opiates. There is a shot called the vivitrol shot which lasts a month or so and is basically extended release naltrexone. Here is a little info from Wiki Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naltrexone
The active metabolite of Naltrexone has a 13-hour half life (Naltrexone's is only 3 hours) so multiplying that by a factor of five, gives us around 3 days until it is out of your system completely. But I am sure after Day II, you could still get high. I have always been interested in Opioid-Antagonist therapy. In theory, it should actually work. Why? Because by constantly bombarding the brain's opioid receptors with an ANTagonist, the receptors UP-regulate, becoming more numerous in number than would be naturally found. At that point, one would experience intense surges of euphoria WITHOUT drugs from normal, everyday events that would raise Beta-Endorphin levels. Of course, the problem is that you have to actually go a good two months or so in total agony and misery as you are still stuck with the brain of an addict (very few to next-to-zero mu-opioid receptors) with NO agonist. And of course, B-Endorphin wouldn't mean much at that point. So, one would be have to dedicated as FUCK to wait out the hell-on-earth they would likely experience for AT LEAST one month, until the good-times roll.
