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April 25, 2018

Trending News Today: Weight Loss Drugs May Help Fight Opioid Addiction

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America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) expressed concerns regarding short-term insurance plans that are being floated by the Trump administration, according to The Washington Post. Short-term insurance allows people to buy plans that last up to 12 months, which critics fear will split the insurance market by prompting younger healthy people to buy cheaper plans, causing premiums for Affordable Care Act plans to spiral out of control. While proponents say these concerns are overblown and that the uninsured need more options, AHIP stated that short-term plans could raise the overall cost of health care in the United States.

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Seeing a correlation between the mechanisms that drive various types of addiction, researchers are evaluating whether several weight loss drugs that failed commercially could help reduce the burden of the opioid epidemic, according to STAT. Researchers believe that an addiction to drugs may, in essence, be similar to an addiction to food. They are now evaluating medications such as Qsymia, Belviq, and Contrave, which are prescription weight loss drugs that failed on the market after initially being expected to perform well, according to the article.

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