NPR Talks Smack
From the June 26, 2017, issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD.
6:00 AM, Jun 19, 2017 | By THE SCRAPBOOK
Public radio doesn't quite know what it wants us to think about the anti-addiction medicine Vivitrol.
At the beginning of the month Marketplace was touting Vivitrol as the "drug that heroin-proofs your brain," a sort of magic bullet for shooting the old monkey off one's back. The drug is essential, we were told, in keeping junkies out of jail. An addiction specialist raved that Vivitrol acts like "a kind of a force field around the part of your brain that likes heroin." The medicine is regularly given to inmates upon release from prison, so they can stay clean: It works "really, really well," said the addiction expert. "We wish we had medications like this for hypertension or diabetes or depression, but we don't."
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