GLP Podcast: Once-a-month shot controls opioid addiction; Food waste as energy; Obesity drugs are here

GLP Podcast: Once-a-month shot controls opioid addiction; Food waste as energy; Obesity drugs are here

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
A drug given once monthly as an injection could drastically reduce opioid use in the US. Why is it so ...
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Podcast: CRISPR-edited weed; opioid addiction vaccine; Africa’s neglected diseases

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
An opioid-blocking vaccine could spare many people a lifetime of drug addiction, if and when it's developed. COVID-19 exposed Africa's ...
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Hospitals face chronic shortages of injectable opioids. The COVID-19 pandemic made things worse.

Dan Levine, Lisa Girion, Robert Respaut | 
For years, hospitals chased supplies, sometimes resorting to inferior substitutes. The shortfall grew so dire in 2018 that a drugmaker ...
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Video: What makes opioids so addictive

Mike Davis | 
In the 1980s and 90s, pharmaceutical companies began to market opioid painkillers aggressively, while actively downplaying their addictive potential. The ...
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There was an opioid epidemic 130 years ago. Can it teach us anything about today’s crisis?

Haider Warraich | 
The 1890s and 1990s were both characterized by unopposed amplification of the benefits of opioids, the transformation of physicians into ...
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Chronic pain relief: Why Gabapentin may not be a ‘safe’ alternative to opioids

Olga Khazan | 
Gabapentin was supposed to be the answer. Chronic pain afflicts about a fifth of American adults, and for years, doctors thought it ...
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Can deep brain stimulation treat opioid addiction?

Lenny Bernstein | 
A surgeon has implanted electrodes in the brain of a patient suffering from severe opioid use disorder, hoping to cure ...
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Alternative treatments for opioid addiction? Florida doctors forced to endorse chiropractic, acupuncture, massage

Jann Bellamy | 
Billed as an effort to combat the opioid crisis, a new Florida law requires physicians and other healthcare practitioners to endorse ...
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This ‘psychedelic’ treatment can cure opioid addition. It also might kill you

Clayton Dalton | 
With proper treatment, withdrawing from opioids won’t kill you, but it can make you want to die. … The desperation ...
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Overreaction? Newly proposed definition of pain could withhold opioids from those who need them most

Dawn Downton | 
A new definition of pain is out for comment from the International Association for the Study of Pain, an influential ...
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Preventing opioid overdoses with a smart phone app that monitors breathing patterns

Charlotte Jee | 
The opioid epidemic in the US kills 115 Americans every day, with fentanyl by far the biggest killer. Per year, drugs in ...
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Controversial treatment: Can we treat drug addiction with heroin?

Zachary Siegel | 
As overdose deaths have broken records year after year in the U.S., a group of researchers has looked around the ...
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Poppy genome reveals ‘bizarre’ biological errors that gave us ‘intoxicating medicines’

Stephen Fleischfresser | 
A series of bizarre events and biological errors over evolutionary history were responsible for the intoxicating medicines found inside the ...
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Opioid pain killer without risk of addiction? It may be possible

Ed Cara | 
The ultimate goal of pain medicine—a powerful painkiller with few to no side effects, such as dependence or overdose—is still ...
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Can a genetic test predict risk of opioid addiction?

Roger Chriss | 
The opioid crisis is an ongoing tragedy, with fatal overdoses costing thousands of lives each year. Although opioids are an ...
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2016 Presidential Race: Clinton, Trump, Stein and Johnson on Vaccines and Bio-Pharmaceuticals

David Warmflash | 
Professional medical organizations could not be stronger in support of childhood immunizations, including mandatory vaccinations of school children. Only Clinton ...
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