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

You will be able to feel the absorbable, biodegradable plastic of the George O’Neil implant for over a year before it starts to disappear.   The Addex implants slowly dissolve over the life of the implant inserted.

» Related reading : care of the Naltrexone Implant site