An old-but-new treatment for opioid addiction
April 02, 2021
Erick Turner, M.D., questions the use of Vitamin C to treat opioid use disorder. He says, “On the face of it, it doesn’t seem biologically plausible. How/why would vitamin C affect opioid receptors? Even if there were some plausible sounding mechanism, that’s no substitute for rigorous data.”