A new long-acting treatment to treat opioid addiction just got approved (INDV)

Getty Images The FDA approved on Wednesday an opioid addiction treatment that's injected monthly. Traditionally the drug, buprenorphine, is taken daily. The hope is by taking it monthly it could help patients reduce the chance of relapsing. “It’s potentially a game changer,” said Dr. Andrew Kolodny, co-director of opioid policy research at Brandeis University. A new form of a widely used opioid addiction treatment that is injected monthly instead of taken daily as a tablet was approved Thu...