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New research suggests estrogen and progesterone could play role in opioid addiction and relapse

  • Written by Jessica Loweth, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Virtua Health College of Medicine & Life Sciences, Rowan University
imageNeuroscientists are investigating how and when hormones affect the risk for relapse to prescription opioids.ArtistGNDphotography/E+ Collection via Getty Images

As opioid overdose deaths in the U.S. rose dramatically from 2014 to today, both Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey, cemented reputations as hotspots of the crisis.

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