A Path to Lower-Risk Painkillers

A path to lower-risk painkillers
Conventional drug treatments for pain work by targeting the so-called orthosteric site of the opioid receptor that provides pain relief. Targeting this site, however, is a double-edged sword because it is also responsible for all of the drug's unwanted …
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Poorly managed pain relief can have devastating consequences for addicts
With addiction to prescribed painkillers now the largest drug-related problem in the USA – causing more deaths annually than heroin and cocaine combined – and prescribed narcotics on the rise in the UK, the report warns that this is fast becoming a …
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