An international team that includes researchers from UNC-Chapel Hill say they have developed a new pain killing drug candidate that doesn’t trigger side effects prevalent with current opioids.
The work is still in its early stages, but the researchers say they potentially found a drug that blocks pain, but that patients won’t become addicted to. If true, the findings would be a major breakthrough, especially as opioid dependence and overdoses on painkilling drugs, including morphine and oxycodone,…
An international team that includes researchers from UNC-Chapel Hill say they have developed a new pain killing drug candidate that doesn’t trigger side effects prevalent with current opioids.
The work is still in its early stages, but the researchers say they potentially found a drug that blocks pain, but that patients won’t become addicted to. If true, the findings would be a major breakthrough, especially as opioid dependence and overdoses on painkilling drugs, including morphine and oxycodone,…