Medications Can Help As Opioid Treatment for Teens
Teens who misuse prescription or illicit opioids might benefit from opioid treatment medications, according to a new study led by a Yale researcher. An estimated…
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Teens Abusing Opioids May Benefit From Medication Treatment
Although the effectiveness of medications to treat adults with opioid use disorder has been well established, there has been little research about how — or…
Alarming Risk Discovered for People Coming Off Opioids
Patients on chronic opioid prescriptions who came off opioids were three times more likely to die of an overdose in the years that followed, a…
Safer Pain Medications Possible After Discovery of Anti-Opioid Pathway
A team at Scripps Research in Florida has discovered a biological system that manages cells’ response to opioid drug exposure. The unexpected discovery offers new…
Examining the Brain Receptors that Bind to Opioids
Through the use of high-energy X-rays, researchers uncovered the structures of some of the most intricate and challenging proteins ever analyzed and determined the composition…