Sentences with phrase «different opioid drugs»
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Hospitals use these medications for in - patients only, so those drugs operate in a largely different market than the rogue prescription drugs, heroin and fentanyl fueling the nationwide opioid epidemic, which claimed 268 lives in Erie County alone last year.
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Because GABA B is in a different class from opioid receptors, potential side effects in such a drug would be limited.
Scientists are searching for a different kind of shot to prevent such tragedies: a vaccine to counter addiction to heroin and other opioids, such as the prescription painkiller fentanyl and similar knockoff drugs.
Bohn and colleagues figured out that mu opioid receptors — the type of opioid receptor targeted by most drugs — send two different streams of messages.
His team showed that mice lacking a different opioid receptor, the delta receptor, tended not to show negative effects in response to the drugs.
Despite the potential for new, better opioids, other researchers are focused on an altogether different set of pain - killing drugs: the cannabinoids (made famous by marijuana, the dried leaves and other parts of the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa).