Queensland researchers have led the way to find an overlap between long COVID and chronic fatigue. Now they're calling for participants in a trial to treat the illness.
Help keep family & friends informed by sharing this articleResearchers say a drug used to block the effects of heroin could be the answer to treating long COVID.Researchers will look at the effects of low-dose naltrexone on people with long COVID symptoms
Griffith University in Queensland and Notre Dame University in Western Australia have teamed up for the trialA team on the Gold Coast is collaborating with a doctor in Western Australia to run a clinical trial examining the impacts of low-dose naltrexone on people suffering from the illness. "Naltrexone in high doses is kind of the antidote to morphine; it blocks the opioid receptors," Perth-based pain specialist and anaesthetist James Jarman said.
"In high doses it's used to block the effects of, for example, a heroin user getting a high from heroin, and in alcoholism to stop some of the buzz that alcoholics get from alcohol.Dr Jarman contacted Griffith University's National Centre for Neuroimmunology and Emerging Diseases after hearing centre director Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik tell the ABC about her research into long COVID.
Griffith University researchers has teamed up with Notre Dame University to carry out the clinical trial.
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