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Savannah Meacham

Opioid treatment drug offers hope for long COVID cases

Prof Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik (right) is looking to a opioid treatment to help long COVID sufferers. (Supplied by Griffith University/AAP PHOTOS)

A drug commonly used to treat opioid dependency may also prove life changing for long COVID-19 sufferers.

Queensland scientists have discovered Naltrexone can be used on a low dose to alleviate long COVID's debilitating symptoms, describing it as a "world first finding".

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