{"id":10833,"date":"2026-01-19T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=10833"},"modified":"2026-01-19T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T14:04:00","slug":"the-pill-patients-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=10833","title":{"rendered":"The Pill Patients Saved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/01\/the-pill-patients-saved\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It reduced cravings, dulled alcohol\u2019s \u201cbuzz,\u201d and carried no risk of addiction.\u00a0By every measure, naltrexone should have immediately become a major triumph. Instead, it flopped because the institutions charged with treating addiction refused to use it. Now considered a gold standard, it survived because patients and communities kept it alive.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/01\/the-pill-patients-saved\/\">The Pill Patients Saved<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It reduced cravings, dulled alcohol\u2019s \u201cbuzz,\u201d and carried no risk of addiction.\u00a0By every measure, naltrexone should have immediately become a major triumph. Instead, it flopped because the institutions charged with treating addiction refused to use it. Now considered a gold standard, it survived because patients and communities kept it alive. The post The Pill Patients&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}