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Cultivating joy through mindfulness: An antidote to opioid misuse, the disease of despair

October 17, 2019 by

New research shows that a specific mind-body therapy, Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE), increases the brain's response to natural, healthy rewards while also decreasing the brain's response to opioid-related cues.

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