An implant to keep heroin addicts off street drugs?

A small implant designed to help addicts steer clear of street heroin and other opioid drugs may have inched closer to market on Tuesday as U.S. researchers announced positive study findings.

Effective anti-addiction treatments are only available in liquid and pill forms at this point, but addicts often skip doses or sell the medications on the street to buy heroin.

"The reason the implant was made is that it really solves these problems," said Katherine L. Beebe of California-based Titan Pharmaceuticals, developer of the new product and sponsor of the study.

"The results that we saw were very, very encouraging and consistent with earlier results," added Beebe, whose findings appear in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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