Long COVID has posed a challenge for doctors to treat. Critical care specialist Dr. Paul Marik has labeled long COVID a syndrome rather than a disease due to its complicated symptoms like brain fog, fatigue, malaise, shortness of breath, tachycardia, and gastrointestinal problems, to name just a few. The symptom clusters of long COVID have…

After nine years as a homeless drug addict in Los Angeles, Jared Klickstein finally checked himself into a drug treatment center. Unlike the program he had gone to six years before, which had hot tubs, acupuncture, and trips to the beach, this one, in North Hollywood, was deadly serious about personal responsibility. Clients kept a…

Claudia Ann Christian, a greatly successful American actress, suffered from alcohol addiction for over a decade. She felt that something else was controlling her, as if she was not in the “driver’s seat.” She spent a fortune trying to find a cure in vain. Then she discovered Naltrexone and was able to overcome her alcoholism…

Claudia Ann Christian, a greatly successful American actress, suffered from alcohol addiction for over a decade. She felt that something else was controlling her, as if she was not in the “driver’s seat.” She spent a fortune trying to find a cure in vain. Then she discovered Naltrexone and was able to overcome her alcoholism…

A drug that’s helping millions of people with opioid or alcohol dependence is also being used to treat those suffering symptoms of long COVID. Naltrexone has been around since 1984 to treat opioid or alcohol addiction. Given in high doses of 50-milligram tablets or a 380-milligram intramuscular injection, the drug works by binding to opioid…