Benefits of Naltrexone Implantation

Using a Naltrexone Implant has significant benefits for the client / patient :

Benefits of Implantation

• It ensures that a person receives a regular dose of medication
• It ensures compliance
• It makes it impossible to forget to take the medication
• Useful if the patient has no one to supervise the tablets
• You do not have to take the implant out – it will slowly dissolve over a period of a few months after the life of the implant has ended
• The procedure is done on a day basis, therefore no overnight stay is required

Disadvantages of Implantation

• Involves minor surgery, which means a small scar, there may also be temporary bruising and swelling
• The implant site occasionally becomes inflamed or infected, you then need a course of antibiotics, although we routinely give antibiotics with the double George O’Neil implant

Your will be able to feel the absorbable, biodegradable plastic of the implant for over a year before it starts to disappear.

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