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 ...

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 ...

With an estimated 5 million Americans battling opioid use disorder—resulting in tens of thousands of deaths each year—a new ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Researchers have identified a new way to make opioids safer, increasing the pain-relieving properties of opioids while decreasing unwanted side effects through the spinal inhibition of a Heat shock ...

Opioids slot into opioid receptors and activate them. This sends signals to your brain to relieve pain and promote pleasure. Both endogenous opioids, which your body naturally produces, and exogenous ...

Kids with broken or sprained limbs don't need oral opioids to treat their pain, according to newly published findings from a ...