Hyperbaric chamber eases drug withdrawal symptoms

Wednesday, August 31, 2016 - 16:01 in Health & Medicine

Washington State University researchers have found that treatments of pure oxygen in a high-pressure chamber can relieve the symptoms of opiate withdrawal. Ray Quock – a pharmacologist and WSU psychology professor – gave morphine-addicted mice pure pressurized oxygen before they began withdrawal from the drug. The mice had far less severe withdrawal symptoms than addicted […]

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