Julie Blendy, professor of pharmacology at University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, presented her research on the molecular and genetic mechanisms behind opioid use disorders in the ...

Pharmacology, prescribing requirements, and patient preference are crucial factors in choosing opioid agonist treatments.

Researchers at USF Health have discovered a new way opioid receptors can work that may lead to safer pain medications. Their findings show that certain experimental compounds can amplify pain relief ...

Scientists are racing to redesign how powerful painkillers work, aiming to keep the relief that opioids provide while ...

New research reveals previously unknown ways opioid receptors can function, opening the door to safer pain treatments.

Opioids are naturally occurring substances that have several effects on the central nervous system that are mainly mediated by opioid receptors. There are three subtypes of this receptor (μ1, μ2 and ...

Experiments reveal that a time-dependent epistatic interaction influences how mice respond to opioids, and that intracellular fibroblast growth factors also influence opioid sensitivity.

A February 2015 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provided updated estimates of prescription opioid analgesic use among adults ages 20 and over. The authors concluded that ...

The drug overdose epidemic is largely driven by opioids, which continue to be prescribed for chronic pain despite recommendations to use non-opioids for most cases. The drug overdose epidemic is ...

The Interactive Talk presentation, “Opioids’ Impact on Pain-Interference and Sleep: The OARS Pilot Study”, will take place on Friday, June 24 th, 2022 at 8 p.m ...

A new Pharmacology Research & Perspectives study found no harm to newborns from opioid maintenance treatment (OMT) during pregnancy compared with no treatment. Because little is known about the safety ...

The FDA is conducting a workshop to discuss the science (lack thereof, really) of Morphine Milligram Equivalents as it applies to the atrocious CDC 2016 Opioid Prescribing Guidelines. Public comments ...