KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — During 2025, the Knox County Regional Forensic Center identified a new synthetic opioid in three East Tennessee counties. While limited information is available on the new ...
Muse Treatment Alcohol & Drug Rehab Los Angeles has published a new educational resource that explains how opioid receptors function in the brain and why they play a central role in pain relief, ...
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 ...
Opioid receptors are fantastic targets for treating pain—but unfortunately, the drugs that target them can be addictive. Because the molecules suppress breathing and heart function, those drugs can ...
Researchers at USF Health are making dramatic strides in understanding how new opioid compounds work inside the body to provide pain relief, offering greater hope that new classes of these drugs may ...
Dornsife researchers created 3D models of opioids hitting brain receptors, and of naloxone stopping the receptors from activating. (Henry Kofman / Daily Trojan file photo) The opioid crisis has killed ...