Estimation of the Number of People With Opioid Addiction in Germany. Kraus L, Seitz NN, Schulte B, Cremer-Schaeffer P, Braun B, Verthein U, Pfeiffer-Gerschel T. Dtsch Arztebl Int. 2019 Mar 1;116(9):137-143. doi: 10.3238/arztebl.2019.0137. https...

An Exploratory Study of Units of Reporting Opium Use in Iran: Implications for Epidemiologic Studies. Mohebbi E, Kamangar F, Rahimi-Movaghar A, Haghdoost AA, Etemadi A, Amirzadeh S, Najafi F, Shafeie F, Fakhari A, Ghaleban K, Shahid-Sales S, Hoss...

Discovery of Novel µ-Opioid Receptor Inverse Agonist from a Combinatorial Library of Tetrapeptides through Structure-Based Virtual Screening. Poli G, Dimmito MP, Mollica A, Zengin G, Benyhe S, Zador F, Stefanucci A. Molecules. 2019 Oct 27;24(21)...

USA. Potent Synthetic Opioid - Isotonitazene - Recently Identified in the Midwestern United States Purpose: The objective of this public announcement is to notify public health and public safety, law enforcement, clinicians, medical examiners and...

What Will the Opioid Crisis Look Like in Five Years? Few people had ever heard of fentanyl five years ago. By 2018 this synthetic opioid was implicated in more than 30,000 fatal overdoses in the United States. The next stage of the fast-changing ...

Peripherer Opioid-Agonist bessert Juckreiz bei Dialyse-Patienten New York – Der urämische Pruritus, der die meisten Dialyse-Patienten quält, lässt sich durch Opiate lindern. Ein Opioid-Agonist, der nur die peripheren Kappa-Rezeptoren stimuliert, ...