Injection therapy is used along with counseling and social support to help people who have stopped drinking large amounts of alcohol to avoid drinking again. injection is also used along with counseling and social support to help people who have stopped abusing opiate medications or street drugs to avoid abusing the medications or street drugs again.
Doctor or trained health professional will give you this medicine. This medicine is given as a shot into the buttocks (gluteal) muscle. It is usually given every 4 weeks or once a month.
It will be given to alcohol-dependent patients who can abstain from drinking alcohol and does not need an overnight stay in the hospital.
