Brain's response to opioids: New research provides expanded insights: Study also provides clues to new class of painkillers with fewer side effects. Opioids are powerful painkillers that act on the brain, but they have a range of harmful side eff...

Study upends conventional view of opioid mechanism of action - NIH-funded scientists find new molecular target for developing safer pain medications A new discovery shows that opioids used to treat pain, such as morphine and oxycodone, produce th...

A Genetically Encoded Biosensor Reveals Location Bias of Opioid Drug Action Stoeber, Miriam et al. Neuron , Volume 0 , Issue 0 , doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2018.04.021 Abstract https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(18)30329-5

Opioids of the Masses - Stopping an American Epidemic From Going Global (Foreign Affairs, Mai/Juni 2918) https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2018-04-16/opioids-masses

Tramadol. An Opioid Popularised by a Nazi Doctor Is Ravaging Africa The former director of the drug enforcement agency in Nigeria estimated in 2016 that seven in ten boys were abusing drugs like tramadol. (Vice, UK, 21.05.2018) https://www.vice....

Body's 'natural opioids' affect brain cells much differently than morphine A new study led by UC San Francisco scientists shows that brain cells, or neurons, react differently to opioid substances created inside the body - the endorphins responsi...