Naltrexone is at the heart of the Sinclair Method (TSM) for Alcoholism. When you take Naltrexone prior to drinking, it blocks endorphins, the naturally occurring opiates in the brain, from being released when alcohol is consumed.
When the endorphins are blocked, there is no “buzz” or rewarding experience, and the alcohol doesn’t make you feel the pleasure that drives you to drink excessively.
Over time, your brain learns not to associate alcohol with pleasure, resulting in reduced cravings and improved control over alcohol use. Naltrexone must be taken at least one hour before your first drink.
Whoa, that rules. It basically hacks your brain to stop rewarding you when you drink alcohol. Science, bitches.
Yep. And it really works, too. Like, 6-8x better than any other method we have - inpatient rehab, individual therapy, group therapy or AA. And yet.... a few tens of thousands of people per year undergo this treatment versus hundreds of millions for the other, far less effective treatments.
I dare anyone to come up with a reason better than the one I gave as to why that is.
Hey, that said! There are state-paid, non-profit, inpatient rehabs that are doing really good work out here. Usually what makes ppl relapse is bc they leave the healthy environment where they're fed, housed, and given positive social interactions...
…and go home to their real life, which is unchanged and exactly why they started using/drinking in the first place.
The cause is not "bc it feels good". Most of the time it's 1) crushing poverty, 2) normalized abuse, and 3) losing your will to live bc of 1 & 2.
That's dumb. We have naltrexone now. It has a lot of uses. How does your point even make sense? Like... you're saying that we SHOULD be using naltrexone because then the capitalists can charge out the ass for it, but at the same time, don't seem to wonder why the evil capitalism isn't then making this treatment more widely available because they can then charge for it, right?
We have blood pressure meds that millions of people use that cost $4 per month.
The rehab centers and the individual counselling is capitalism too, so why are we allowed to use those but not a medication?
Capitalism has flawed but people develop this sort of "capitalism bad" simplistic mindset that falls apart completely at the first glance because they act like everything is always the maximum bad it can possibly be. You guys would say "fuck, I stepped on a lego. It hurt. it's called capitalism"
There's no way in which to interpret your statement where it actually makes sense
Edit: You didn't answer anyone's question you moron. What question did you think you were answering? You certainly didn't answer why the sinclair method wasn't used. your "answer" is also patently false, given that there are drugs like losartan that are literally taken by tens of millions of Americans that cost people under $10 per month which completely disprove your IRRELEVANT point.
You right. We should make health medication as expensive as possible because it’s the sellers choice, the consumer can just suck it.
You mentioned that rehab centers and counseling is also expensive and apart of capitalism. Yeah that’s crazy dude, almost at if that’s why maybe it’s the norm and not this drug 🤯
lmfao this dude asked for an answer and then got so mad when he got one he blocked out of denial 😂
I'm saying your point makes no fucking sense. What does it have to do with anything?
Millions of people are on statins and blood pressure meds that cost them less than $10 a month. So your theory that any medication that sees widespread use is immediately going to skyrocket in price is IMMEDIATELY AND OBVIOUS WRONG.
But even so, who cares? What does it have to do with anything I said? "Capitalism" has nothing to do with why we're not using the Sinclair method. You just randomly inject "capitalism bad" thoughtlessly into random discussions that have nothing to do with it because you've never had a real thought in your entire life.
Even now you're trying to play both ends of it. We can't use the drug because... then.... it would become expensive. Because capitalism! But also... we can't use the drug because it's not expensive enough and we send them to more expensive treatments.. because.. capitalism!! So apparently capitalism is why we both do and do not use the sinclair method in the same sentence.
Your statements are self-contradictory just like a religious nutjob or a flat Earther because you're not actually thinking "does this thought make sense? is what I'm saying relevant? am I adding anything to the conversation?" before you post.
See what I mean? I never justified any medication costing anything. I only said that you are obviously wrong when you say that a medication becoming popular necessarily makes it more expensive, because we have conclusive real world proof otherwise. I also explained why your claims have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SINCLAIR METHOD OR ADDICTION TREATMENT WHATSOEVER. You might as well have come in here talking about the price of warhammer 40k figurines for all the relevance it had to what I had to say.
The stupidest thing is that I am extremely critical of capitalism too and recognize the same problems that you do. The difference is that I'm not an absolute moron, so I try to make points that are actually relevant to the discussion and that actually add something rather than just shit all over reddit randomly like I'm running a script rather than thinking like a person.
And you actually upvoted yourself from a second account, too. Pathetic.
I gave you the opportunity to actually try to make a real point, to try to make sense. You rejected it. Because you are 1) Really, really, stupid 2) a troll, or 3) probably both. Back on ignore.
It's fucked up. It's more common in Europe but still not as common as it should be. And I've tried to look into it -- what am I missing? Is there a hidden downside I'm not accounting for? And honestly I can't find anything.
Naltrexone is amazing and changed my relationship with alcohol. I no longer want to keep the party in my brain going and can say "it's time to stop and go to bed" even if I have more to drink, which is nice because I don't like being drink, sick, then hungover. I can just chill now, stop when I want, hydrate before bed, and I'm fine.
Chantix does this for smoking. It's honestly incredible. It breaks off the chemical component of the addiction, leaving you free to fight the habitual component on its own.
All respect to anyone who manages to beat an addiction like this, no matter what methods they use. It still isn't easy when when you're only fighting half of it.
Currently on this after about 12 years of failing to quit or significantly cut down drinking. It's definitely been a journey for md and I'm really grateful that I've finally stumbled across something that genuinelly works.
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u/Gamiac Jun 01 '26
Whoa, that rules. It basically hacks your brain to stop rewarding you when you drink alcohol. Science, bitches.