Frequently asked questions

Answer: All the medications used in the treatment are FDA approved. The patient will be on a regimen of Naltrexone for a year following the procedure. Naltrexone is FDA approved and has been used for about 25 years. Naltrexone has shown no serious side effects. In Dr. Waismann’s personal experience of treating thousands of patients, he does not recommend more than 50mg daily. For most patients 25mg is sufficient.

Answer: The patient will be taking Naltrexone for one year after the procedure is performed. If Naltrexone is properly prescribed by the physician, it will effectively prevent and have a reversal effect on cravings. The main reason for the maintenance dose is to keep the patient’s opiate receptors in the brain blocked against opiates (i.e. Heroin, Methadone etc.), to eliminate the cravings or the psychological need for opiates, allowing the patient to resume a healthy and productive life.

Answer: ANR effectively reverses the physical and psychological aspects of opiate dependency with minimal discomfort during and/or after the procedure.

• ANR – Does not use general anaesthesia.
• ANR – Allows immediate recovery
• ANR – Does not cause the adverse side effects usually associated with Rapid Detox.
• ANR – Reduces opiate craving to irrelevant levels. The craving is a psychological manifestation of a biological condition, which is reversed by ANR.
• ANR – Has been proven safer than any other method including all the different versions of Rapid Detoxification.
• We are different from other Rapid Detox methods on the fast recovery and effective receptor blockage. Our patients feel psychologically better and craving is no longer an issue.
• We do not believe that opiate dependent men or women have weak personalities.
• We do not believe in long term psychotherapies for formerly opiate dependent patients.
• We do not believe that after treatment patients should perceive themselves as still being addicted.
• We replace obsolete psychological theories with medical knowledge. If there is still a place for theories, we develop our own, not based on prejudice and moral judgements, but on modern biotechnology, respect and commonsense.
• We are the pioneers who developed the ANR method, and we have accumulated more treatment experience than all other methods and physicians combined in this field. We do not apply for patents, we choose to share our knowledge and experience with others.