U.S. prisons are experimenting with a high-priced monthly injection that could help addicted inmates stay off opioids after they are released, but skeptics question its effectiveness and say the ...

Hal Pyzyna of Lexington was 35 when he died of an opioid overdose a little more than a month after leaving an Addiction Recovery Care facility. (Photo provided) Striving to stay sober, Hal Pyzyna ...

DENVER (CBS4) - There is now a Food and Drug Administration-approved, monthly injection to treat addiction to alcohol, heroin and prescription pain pills. It's called Vivitrol. They prescribe it at ...

60.5 people in Cumberland County die from drug overdoses out of every 100,000 residents. Vivitrol was introduced in 2006. Patients only have to receive Vivitrol once a month via an injection in the ...

A select group of Ventura County inmates soon will have a drug addiction treatment option that experts say cuts the body's physical dependence on opioids and alcohol. Vivitrol, also known as ...

Demi Lovato revealed that she is currently receiving monthly shots of a drug designed to negate the effects of opioids in an effort to curb her addiction. Vivitrol is the brand name for a drug called ...

Pat Sauble thought there were “10 out of 10 chances” that he’d be landing back in the state prison at Camp Hill. He "got lucky." First, he was accepted into York County Drug Treatment Court. Then, he ...

Lyman lives in White River Junction, Vermont. Since he started his Vivitrol injections 15 months ago, he says six of his friends have . Like much of the country, that prompted Gov. Peter Shumlin to ...

On Vivitrol, Gabriel wore a dog tag in case he got in an accident and couldn’t communicate; a regular narcotic in an ER would have no effect. Photo: Graham MacIndoe/New York Magazine What Comes After ...

Carla K. Johnson, medical writer, Chicago, for first spotting news in a single line in a state Medicaid waiver form, and then chasing down and chronicling in text and video how prisons in the U.S. are ...

SHERIDAN, Ill. — US prisons are experimenting with a high-priced monthly injection that could help addicted inmates stay off opioids after they are released, but skeptics question its effectiveness ...

SHERIDAN, Ill. – U.S. prisons are experimenting with a high-priced monthly injection that could help addicted inmates stay off opioids after they are released, but skeptics question its effectiveness ...