New findings unexpectedly show that heroin, not its metabolites, is the best therapeutic target. A monoclonal antibody that targets heroin is effective in blocking the psychoactive and lethal effects ...
Boston University historian Benjamin R. Siegel’s Markets of Pain charts opium from a commodity in colonial India to fuel for a drug crisis in modern-day America The rare earths so essential to our ...
Opium is a highly addictive drug. It’s made from juice extracted from the unripe seed pods of opium poppy plants (the scientific name is Papaver somniferum). Opium is used to make a class of drugs ...
LA JOLLA, CA—A monoclonal antibody that targets heroin is effective in blocking the psychoactive and lethal effects of this drug of abuse in mice—offering a new strategy for heroin addiction and ...