Study finds longer, more consistent addiction medication use among youth sharply lowers risk of overdose, hospitalization
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Mass General Brigham study of more than 11,000 adolescents and young adults found those who took buprenorphine for 12 months had almost half the risk of overdose compared to those who discontinued early
New research is uncovering how medications targeting the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) system affect brain circuits involved in nausea, thirst, and pleasurable behaviors. These findings will be presented at Neuroscience 2025, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world’s largest source of emerging news about brain science and health.