As prescription
opioid painkillers claim an alarming number of lives every year, researchers are racing to better understand the brain's response to stress, and to identify alternate interventions, speakers said 18 September at AAAS.
More than 63,600 Americans were killed by
opioid painkillers last year — 11,200 more people than the year before that and the highest number of lives
claimed by the crisis so far.