A therapy that rose to prominence during the Covid pandemic and was even used to treat may help to ease the deadly opioid overdose epidemic in the US, scientists hope.Monoclonal antibodies — or virus-fighting proteins made in a lab — fight off infections by stopping the virus from invading cells and slashing the risk of being hospitalized with the disease.Now scientists are on a path towards using this treatment to alleviate chronic pain, that leaves sufferers including arthritis and cancer patients needing to take up to several pills a day for months — risking addiction.
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