LSU Health Shreveport Innovation Offers New Approach to Solving Addiction
February 22, 2022
February 22, 2022
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 22 (TNSJou) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release:
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By targeting the stress-response system in the brain, an LSU pharmacologist has discovered a way to decrease drug craving and relapse into drug use.
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The need for new solutions to addiction has reached an all-time high. More than 2,000 Louisianans died from drug overdoses in the past year--a 10-fold increase from two decades ago. . . .
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By targeting the stress-response system in the brain, an LSU pharmacologist has discovered a way to decrease drug craving and relapse into drug use.
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The need for new solutions to addiction has reached an all-time high. More than 2,000 Louisianans died from drug overdoses in the past year--a 10-fold increase from two decades ago. . . .