Helping Inmates with naltrexone

Name: Helping Inmates with naltrexone
Uploaded: 2024-11-07T12:00:52+00:00
Duration: 27 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok describes how prisons use naltrexone to help inmates with opioid addiction at discharge. He explains the shift from heroin to fentanyl…

7 Nov 2024 · 0 min

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Dr. Charles Mok describes how prisons use naltrexone to help inmates with opioid addiction at discharge. He explains the shift from heroin to fentanyl, the role of Suboxone in care, and why some facilities trial oral naltrexone for a few days before giving monthly Vivitrol injections to improve outcomes after release.

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Maybe two or three days.

Once a month.

Suboxone.

Fentanyl (even more so than heroin).

In the prison system meet with individuals that were getting ready to be discharged. We use Suboxone a lot. Not everyone uses opiates now. Today it's in fentanyl, even more so than heroin. But if their underlying problem was alcohol, even meth, I would do a trial. You know, just give them a pill of Naltrexone for maybe two or three days, make sure they tolerate it, and then send them out with an injection of Vivitrol, because you get it once a month. My feeling always was, hey, let's give you a fighting chance. You know, let's at least put you on a level playing field.