Commercial weight-loss drug could help treat opioid addiction

(American Chemical Society) Scientists are working to come up with new therapies to curb America's opioid epidemic and aid hospitals, doctors and public health officials in this fight. Now one team reports in the journal ACS Chemical Neuroscience that the commercial weight-loss drug lorcaserin, when given to rats who had been self-administering oxycodone, appeared to reduce their use of and craving for the opioid. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)

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