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Washington University School of Medicine

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Laura Bierut was one of the senior investigators who studied buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder in patients who also take benzodiazepines -- drugs that treat anxiety and similar conditions. Her team at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis studied overdose risk in people taking buprenorphine and found that the drug lowered risk, even in people who also took benzodiazepines.

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