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Opioids don't have to be addictive – the new versions will treat pain without triggering pleasure

  • Written by Tao Che, Postdoctoral Research Associate at Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
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The problem with opioids is that they kill pain – and people. In the past three years, more than 125,000 persons died from an opioid overdose – an average of 115 people per day – exceeding the number killed in car accidents and from gunshots during the same period.

America desperately needs safer analgesics. To create...

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