Are any pharmaceutical companies working on anything for opiate withdrawal?

I’ve always been curious about this as well, there is SO MUCH money in a solution like that, that would solve the acute withdrawals portion. There’s so many highly-functional addicts who would pay an absurd amount for such solution which would cover for all the junkie population who wouldn’t be able to afford such thing. Just the number of Hollywood actors/artists who are addicted to this stuff who would pay to skip the acute withdrawals portion of recovery would be enough to fund a whole bunch of research and development of such a thing.

There’s this new device thing that I actually bought through my doctor (only doctors can buy it but they can then sell it to patients at their own discretion, totally legal) I forgot the name but I will look later, they use it on babies who are born to mothers with active addiction and apparently it cuts down the time from like 12 weeks in the ICU to 3-4 weeks and the babies are no longer experiencing any symptoms of withdrawals. In older addict patients, the study only had 13 total participants and by the end of it 5 dropped out, so a total of 8 people are the proof of 70-80% reduction in symptoms….the 5 people dropping out though makes me believe that this didn’t actually help that much…if it was legit putting 80% of the misery away, there’s no fucking way in hell anyone would be dropping out. So that’s my take on it. I used it 30 days after getting clean, but not during acute withdrawals, I literally couldn’t tell you why. I think a part of me knew that it’s just too good to be true and if it did indeed help out so much then there would be articles galore about this revolutionary new product…but it came out mid 2023 and not much of a hot topic at all. Again I’ll go look at the name of this thing and share later. When I used it at 30 days clean it just felt like a brain massage…it’s a device you put in and around your ear and it sends these small pulses through to your brain….if you’ve ever done physical therapy it feels like that vibration electric device they put on your injured body part and you sit there with these stickers on you that send these tiny little electric waves…that’s exactly what it feels like. I didn’t notice much of a difference after in my anxiety/depression level which it’s supposed to also help with (it’s supposedly for both acute withdrawals and PAWS). Sooo yea. Wasted a bunch of money, a few grands on this, but I knew it’s too good to be true. My doctor charged me whatever she paid for it, so she didn’t make any money off of it nor did she promise me that it would work. It was just a thing we both thought is worth a try.