Prescription weight-loss medication helps with opiate addiction recovery, study confirms

Sunday, March 26, 2017 - 14:01 in Health & Medicine

A prescription weight-loss pill decreases the urge to use opiates such as oxycodone, new research confirms. The researchers found that the drug, lorcaserin, reduced the use and craving for the opioid oxycodone in preclinical studies.

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