Why we use not opioid antagonists to treat addictions to opioids faster?
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Opioid antagonists mimic having less opioid in your body than you actually do. We have an easier way to cause someone to have less opioid in their body. It’s called taking less opioids.
We use opioid antagonists is to reverse overdoses because in those cases waiting for the opioid to leave someone’s body isn’t fast enough. We also use them to treat addiction in combination medications like suboxone, which contain enough opioids to keep someone out of the worst withdrawal symptoms and an opioid antagonist to keep them from using extra drugs at the same time to get high. But someone who wants to undergo discomfort to get out of opioid dependence as quickly as possible can already do that without taking opioid antagonists.
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