PBM for Opioid Use Disorder

Laser Therapy Institute Podcast

English - October 18, 2021 08:00 - 16 minutes - 23 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
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This episode directly follows-up episode 31 on opioid addiction and light therapy. The study being reviewed today was done by the same group of researchers and was published in August of 2021. Medication management of opioid use disorders tends to have problems like relapse and dropout, but photobiomodulation used on only one hemisphere of the brain, with or without buprenorphine, was found to be superior to sham in reducing opioid cravings. Listen to find out how they conducted this study and the factors they took into account.

Episode mentioned in this episode

Episode 31 - STUDY: Laser Treatment for Opioid Addiction

Studies mentioned in this episode

An effective and safe novel treatment of opioid use disorder: unilateral transcranial photobiomodulation

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