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Study Confirms Prescription Weight-Loss Medication Helps with Opiate Addiction Recovery
March 24, 2017
GALVESTON, Texas, March 24 -- The University of Texas Medical Branch issued the following news release:

Researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have confirmed that a prescription weight-loss pill decreases the urge to use opiates such as oxycodone.

In a study published in ACS Chemical Neuroscience, the researchers led by UTMB scientist Kathryn Cunningham found that the drug, lorcaserin, reduced the use and craving for the opioid oxycodon . . .

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