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Physical therapy within three months of a musculoskeletal pain diagnosis reduced patients’ risk of long-term opioid use by about 10 percent, according to a study by researchers at Stanford and Duke.
AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | Treatment & Prevention | Stanford UniversityTwo side effects of opioids — growing tolerance to the drugs and increased sensitivity to pain — may be specifically caused by the drugs’ effect on peripheral pain neurons in the body, not those in the spinal cord or brain, according to a new study.
AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | Treatment & Prevention | University Research | Stanford UniversityBy combining computer simulations with laboratory experiments, an international research team revealed something new about a molecular pathway that enables roughly half of all medications to achieve their desired effects – but is also responsible for many side effects.
University Research | AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | Treatment & Prevention | Stanford UniversityResearchers have identified a novel compound that appears to exhibit painkilling power comparable to morphine but lacks that drug’s most lethal property: respiratory suppression, which results in some 30,000 drug overdose deaths annually in the United States.
University Research | AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | Treatment & Prevention | Stanford University