Immune system emerges as partner in opioid cravings fight

Wednesday, September 5, 2018 - 12:50 in Health & Medicine

The same immune system that fights infection and the flu could join the battle against opioid addiction, new research out of the Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research indicates. Erin Calipari, assistant professor of pharmacology and corresponding author on a paper in the Journal of Neuroscience, says there’s promise in specific immune system peptides – amino […]

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