Safety of oral naltrexone in HIV-positive men who have sex with men and transgender women with alcohol use disorder and initiating antiretroviral therapy
Gonzales P, Grieco A, White E, Ding R, Ignacio RB, Pinto-Santini D, Lama JR, Altice FL, Duerr A. Safety of oral naltrexone in HIV-positive men who have sex with men and transgender women with alcohol use disorder and initiating antiretroviral therapy. PLOS ONE 2020, 15: e0228433. PMID: 32134956, PMCID: PMC7058313, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0228433.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAlcohol use disorderAntiretroviral therapyClinical adverse eventsAdverse eventsTransgender womenUse disordersDouble-blind randomized placebo-controlled trialMSM/transgender womenRandomized placebo-controlled trialART-naïve participantsPossibility of hepatotoxicityPlacebo-controlled trialSerious adverse eventsHIV-positive menMedication-assisted therapyProportion of subjectsAdverse event dataMultiple new medicationsOral naltrexoneStudy medicationTransaminase elevationPlacebo armNTX treatmentTreatment armsNew medications