For a few days now, Britain's newspapers have been full of pictures of a gangling young man wearing two hats, stumbling over himself. The sad casualty in question is Pete Doherty, the one-time beau of Kate Moss, ex-Babyshambles frontman, and Britain's most famous smack addict.
The reason for the renewed interest in Doherty's sepulchral lifestyle is that he has just entered a very expensive detox clinic (paid for by Moss, apparently), where he is meant to undergo rapid and sedated withdrawal from his dependency.
A few days later - ie early this week - Doherty is slated to have a Naltrexone implant inserted in his thigh, to prevent his regressing into another addiction.
It sounds weird, and maybe even dangerous. And it is. As any junkie can attest.
Naltrexone blocks the receptors in the brain 
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