The Issue with naltrexone Prescriptions in the U.S.

Name: The Issue with naltrexone Prescriptions in the U.S.
Uploaded: 2024-11-08T12:01:26+00:00
Duration: 42 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: This content was created by Dr. Charles Mok. This content was uploaded by Dr. Charles Mok. This is a YouTube video titled "The Issue with naltrexone…

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This content was created by Dr. Charles Mok. This content was uploaded by Dr. Charles Mok. This is a YouTube video titled "The Issue with naltrexone Prescriptions in the U.S." (created 2024-11-08) containing an English spoken segment by a single speaker (labelled SPEAKER A). The speaker discusses the Sinclair method (credited to Dr. Sinclair), notes it was accepted in Europe but not in the U.S., and describes a personal anecdote about someone who stopped drinking using naltrexone yet was denied a refill because their doctor said it was only for patients who are actively drinking. The speaker argues there is a bias in the U.S. medical community against prescribing naltrexone despite it being very safe, inexpensive, and effective at reducing or eliminating drinking.

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Doctor Sinclair who proposed a Sinclair meth. He's passed away. He was in England and it wasn't accepted in the United States. It was accepted in Europe. Hasn't gotten on the United States because we have such a bias in our medical community because your doctor's got to prescribe it. You can't just go and get it. I know somebody very close to me that had been cured from alcoholism with the in Sinclair method. And he switched doctors, really pretty much stopped drinking, but asked for a prescription, a refill on his naltrexone because he was out. He hadn't drank in a year and his doctor refused to give it to him. He says this is for something you got to take every day and you got to be abstinent. He said, well, I am abstinent. Well, you don't need it then. So there is this bias built in for a pill that's very, very safe, very, very cheap. So this is an inexpensive way to cut down your drinking or eliminate drinking.