Drug used to treat Alcohol Addiction Associated with Serious Side Effects

FDA is alerting healthcare professionals about the risk of serious reactions at the injection site among patients treated with Vivitrol (naltrexone). Vivitrol is administered intramuscularly to treat alcohol dependence.

FDA has received nearly 200 reports of injection site reactions, including cellulitis, induration, hematoma, abscess, sterile abscess and necrosis. Some patients needed surgical intervention. The risk may be increased if the drug is injected subcutaneously or accidentally into fatty tissue.

Practitioners using Vivitrol should use only the specially designed needle that comes with the drug, and take care not to inject the material intravenously, subcutaneously, or into fatty tissue. The special needle may not be long enough to reach muscle tissue in patients with significant gluteal fat. Healthcare providers should consider alternative treatment in these cases.

Patients who develop pain, swelling, bruising, itching or redness that does not improve within two weeks should be instructed to report this, and should be referred to a surgeon.

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• vivitrol
• alcohol addiction
• alcohol dependence
• injection site reactions
• cellulitis
• induration
• hematoma
• abscess

[gamerdaddy]

I'm on my third month taking Naltrexone through the Sinclair Method. And it keeps working greatly! My cravings have diminished tremendously, and even that horrible, suffering "obssession" for drinking (when I used to count the days until my next binge) are subsiding!

Once again: I sincerely recomend those who are suffering from Alcoholism to take a look at this method.

And good luck!

[gamerdaddy]

So, is the problem exclusively related to the injection? Why don't these people start taking ReVia? It's Naltrexone in pills.