Addiction-Free Pain Treatment
August 1, 2023 | Terry Sharrer
“Researchers from the Center for Clinical Pharmacology at Washington University School of Medicine [St. Louis, MO] say they have identified a new target for addiction-free pain treatment—alternate binding sites on the kappa opioid receptor. According to the WashU investigators, scientists who are developing drugs that only target the kappa receptor to alleviate pain, have found that it neither triggers addiction, nor activates a pathway that causes hallucinations, the usual unwanted side effects of pain treatments.” MORE
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