But buprenorphine’s strength as a treatment is also a weakness. Buprenorphine is an opioid. Like methadone, the tightly ...

Tallon, a research associate professor at The Rockefeller University, who over the past decade has revealed how one small, ...

A new imaging study by the Turku PET Centre in Finland showed that listening to favorite music affects the function of the ...

This new study from the Turku PET Centre in Finland demonstrates for the first time that listening to favorite music also activates the brain’s opioid receptors. The study measured the release of ...

(KSWO) - Two teachers in Garvin County, Lindsay Elementary School Counselor Kassi Turner, and Maysville Superintendent Shelly Hildebrand-Beach, are working to help wipe out Oklahoma’s opioid ...

The heart of the opioid epidemic that killed 665,341 people in the United States between 2005 and 2020 shifted geographically from the Northwest to the East, according to a new geographical analysis.

The endorphins released when cats sniff catnip work on the opioid receptors. ‘Opioids?’ I hear you say – yes, these are the same receptors that opioids like morphine and heroin act on ...

“Buprenorphine is a partial opioid agonist,” Young said. “This means that it activates opioid receptors in the brain, but to a lesser extent than things like heroin or morphine would.” This activation ...

The endorphins released when cats sniff catnip work on the opioid receptors. ‘Opioids?’ I hear you say – yes, these are the same receptors that opioids like morphine and heroin act on, which ...

Coun. Kerr is also an artist and says he brought the Blue Hat initiative forward for council’s consideration in 2024 to “highlight the tragic impacts of the opioid crisis on males in the ...

In recent years, lawmakers have focused almost exclusively on stopping the flow of illicit fentanyl to combat the opioid overdose crisis. First appearing as a heroin additive in 2012, fentanyl ...

The National Institutes of Health funded the study. The human body relies on three kinds of opioid receptors to regulate pain, much like traffic control systems on a busy highway. Understanding these ...