Exposure to heroin sharply reduces levels of the protein necessary
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Cannabis flower is an effective mid-level analgesic medication for pain: Researchers use mobile app to measure how commercially available cannabis products affect pain intensity
Using the largest database of real-time recordings of the effects
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Infants born to mothers taking naltrexone to treat opioid use
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Nearly a third of birthing moms now deliver babies via
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In a common narrative of the path to opioid misuse,
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The opioid epidemic may have cost U.S. state and federal
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A new approach to defining opioid-related auto fatalities provides insight
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A study from investigators at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)
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