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Implants help heroin addicts kick habit
    #13326936 - 10/12/10 05:37 PM (13 years, 7 months ago)

Implants help heroin addicts kick habit
October 12, 2010 - sciencenews.org

People addicted to heroin or prescription opiates might have a hands-free device for getting through the rigors of drug withdrawal. The medication buprenorphine implanted under the skin and released over 24 weeks can ease drug cravings and helps some patients stay clean, researchers report in the Oct. 13 Journal of the American Medical Association.

Buprenorphine is a semisynthetic opioid compound prescribed for pain relief and for addiction withdrawal. Buprenorphine works something like methadone, a synthetic opioid developed in the 1930s. Both drugs are prescribed for withdrawal from addiction to heroin or prescription pain relievers such oxycodone, Dilaudid, codeine and Vicodin.

But buprenorphine in tablet form can be misused by patients who crush the pills, liquefy them and inject them for a stronger effect.

To get around such abuse and to ensure that a person is getting a standardized dose of the drug, researchers devised the implants — polymer compounds composed of ethylene vinyl acetate and buprenorphine — that slowly release the drug into the body over 24 weeks. They recruited 163 adults diagnosed with opioid dependence and randomly assigned 108 to get the implants and 55 to receive placebo implants. The study’s subjects included users of heroin or prescription opioids. All participants received drug counseling during the trial and submitted regular urine samples.

People in either group could request additional doses of buprenorphine as under-the-tongue tablets if they felt their treatment was insufficient to control cravings. Nearly 60 percent of those assigned to buprenorphine requested the extra tablets during the first 16 weeks, as did more than 90 percent of those who had placebo implants. Even so, 37 percent of urine samples from people with buprenorphine implants tested clean for illicit opioids during the trial, compared with only 22 percent of those with placebo implants.

About two-thirds of people with a buprenorphine implant completed the study, compared with less than one-third of those who had a placebo implant.

“In the addiction field, there’s a pretty close relationship between sticking around in treatment — what we call retention — and how well you are doing,” says study coauthor Walter Ling, a psychiatrist at the UCLA School of Medicine.

Drug dependence is a chronic, relapsing condition, with recovery taking a long time for most people, says Linda Gowing, an addiction researcher at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Motivation to quit is countered by the craving, and there is often stigma associated with attending addiction clinics, she says.

Providing take-home doses of medication is problematic because it allows drugs such as buprenorphine to be used inappropriately or sold on the black market. “The use of implants provides a degree of flexibility for clients, while also maintaining medication with minimal risk of misuse,” she says.

In the new study, Ling and his colleagues excluded people with chronic diseases or psychiatric conditions. While that limited some factors that might muddy the results, it also left the trial with “the best patients, in a sense,” says Douglas Bruce, a physician at Yale University School of Medicine. By screening out people whose addictions are complicated by mental illness, AIDS or hepatitis, he says, “that means it’s not necessarily a real-life experience.”

Bruce also notes that implants may have a downside: People with them may not show up for regular counseling as reliably as they would if they were receiving weekly supplies of buprenorphine tablets. “Most people become drug users because of sexual trauma as kids or other violence. Bad things happen to people, and drugs make them feel better.” To break the addiction cycle, Bruce says, medication must be complemented with counseling. “They will always have to take the meds if they never deal with the root issue.”

Nevertheless, Bruce says, the study shows promise. “It’s a great start. One of the things we want to know is what sort of therapy will people need to stay engaged [in a drug program] and how long do people need this treatment — is three to six months really sufficient?”

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Re: Implants help heroin addicts kick habit [Re: veggie]
    #13327549 - 10/12/10 07:57 PM (13 years, 7 months ago)

I hope this doesn't mean you won't be able to get subs in pill form anymore some day. THAT would be a bummer.

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Re: Implants help heroin addicts kick habit [Re: 5-HT2A]
    #13327576 - 10/12/10 08:02 PM (13 years, 7 months ago)

thats scary as hell. just the thought of anything implanted under the skin is terrifying!


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Re: Implants help heroin addicts kick habit [Re: 5-HT2A]
    #13327749 - 10/12/10 08:44 PM (13 years, 7 months ago)

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5-HT2A said:
I hope this doesn't mean you won't be able to get subs in pill form anymore some day. THAT would be a bummer.



Yea Im worried now this better not be something that is happening in the near future because Im on subs and will not be getting some fucking implant.  It even says 60% requested more doses in the pill form even with the implant so this sounds like a shitty inefficient way to do it.


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Re: Implants help heroin addicts kick habit [Re: PeterGriffin467]
    #13328744 - 10/13/10 12:03 AM (13 years, 7 months ago)

petergriffin on subs, what a surprise.


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