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Heroin vs. the Runner’s High: Different Action on Neurons

While opioid drugs and body-made opioids bind to the surface of cells, new research shows that drugs also enter the cell and bind to internal components.

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Synthetic Opioid Driving Overdose Death Rate

An unintended consequence of manufacturing a drug as quick and powerful as fentanyl is how easily the smallest overdose can kill: Currently nearly half of overdoses involve the drug, alone or in combination with other drugs, a NIDA study reports.
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Heroin Addiction Linked to Long-Term Brain Changes

“The most surprising result of this study is that abnormal functional organization in heroin addicts persists even after years of abstinence,” says a researcher.
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Ignorance and the Undertreatment of Addiction: Lessons from Prison

Q&A with Charles P. O’Brien, M.D., Ph.D.

Dana grantee Charles O’Brien discusses his research to combat alcoholism and drug addiction using naltrexone and his frustration at the reluctance of many doctors to treat addiction with medication

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