Opioid Antagonist - in Fiction

In Fiction

  • In the episode of House, "Skin Deep", opioid antagonist drugs were administered in order to completely remove the patient's heroin induced addiction/withdrawal symptoms (during an induced coma in order to relieve the extreme pain of their use), so that an accurate diagnosis of paraneoplastic syndrome caused by cancer was differentiated.
  • In an episode of Royal Pains, a character dangerously tries to undergo a procedure (and go under anaesthesia) in his own home.

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