Opioid addiction treatments face off in US trial

CHICAGO - The first U.S. study to compare two treatments for opioid addiction finds a monthly shot works as well as a daily drug to prevent relapse.  The shot requires days of detox first and that proved to be a stumbling block for many. For those who made it, the shot Vivitrol worked about the same as an older treatment, Suboxone.  Both drugs had high relapse rates and there were overdoses, including fatal ones, in the experiment in 570 adults. It's the firs