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February 10, 2025 Ryan Logan, _UMass Chan Medical School_ and Mackenzie Gamble, _Boston University_ Opioids and other addictive drugs can alter the rhythmic activity of genes involved in

sleep-wake cycles. November 25, 2024 Heather Margonari, _University of Pittsburgh_; Jacques E. Chelly, _University of Pittsburgh_, and Shiv K. Goel, _University of Pittsburgh_ Surgical

patients are opting out of opioids due to concerns about side effects and addiction. Combining methods to manage pain can take these fears into account without compromising on care. November

30, 2023 Katy Holloway, _University of South Wales_ and Fabrizio Schifano, _University of Hertfordshire_ Long-acting injectable buprenorphine is also known by the brand names Buvidal or

Sublocade. May 30, 2023 John Michael Streicher, _University of Arizona_ Unlike opioid drugs like morphine and fentanyl that travel throughout the body, the opioids your body produces are

released in small quantities to specific locations. October 3, 2022 Thabani Khumalo, _University of KwaZulu-Natal_ The six young men took very different routes to recovery. Their experiences

hold important lessons for managing opioid addiction. June 10, 2022 Mark C. Bicket, _University of Michigan_; Jennifer Waljee, _University of Michigan_, and Paul Edward Hilliard,

_University of Michigan_ Non-opioid directives allow patients to refuse opioids in all health care settings. For surgical procedures that require anesthesia, however, this may do more harm

than good. June 7, 2022 Sandra Danilovic, _Wilfrid Laurier University_ Game making is an art form that many aren’t intimately familiar with. Unlike other creative practices, game makers must

create the rules and laws that govern and shape player behaviours. August 13, 2021 Arash Javanbakht, _Wayne State University_ Firefighters are hailed as heroes and pillars of strength,

bravery and courage. But the daily stressors and traumas of their jobs take a heavy emotional toll that largely goes unnoticed by the public. September 3, 2020 Elizabeth Chiarello, _Saint

Louis University_ COVID-19 plagues an overtaxed opioid addiction treatment system. March 9, 2020 Joel Lexchin, _University of Toronto_ and Barbara Mintzes, _University of Sydney_ Aggressive

marketing of prescription opioids by pharmaceutical companies provided doctors with scant information about potential harmful effects. March 4, 2020 Claire Bodkin, _McMaster University_;

Matthew Bonn, _Dalhousie University_, and Sheila Wildeman, _Dalhousie University_ Urgently needed treatment for opioid use disorder is often denied to incarcerated people, feeding the crisis

in prisons and jails. February 10, 2020 Richard Gunderman, _Indiana University_ There’s widespread attention on the dangers of opioid addiction, but use of damaging crystal meth continues

in the U.S., with police seizures rising. November 3, 2019 Suzanne Nielsen, _Monash University_ Treatments for opioid dependence, such as methadone and buprenorphine, are effective. But some

people who stand to benefit are missing out. September 4, 2019 Michael Kim, _University of Southern California_ About 1 in 4 people prescribed an opioid for pain end up abusing it. New

methods to reduce the need for opioids after surgery have been shown to work – and thus minimize the need for such drugs. March 4, 2019 Jonathan S. Jones, _Binghamton University, State

University of New York_ Considered in historical context, Purdue’s plan to peddle opioid addiction medicines to vulnerable people is not so surprising. Gilded-Age pharmaceutical companies

used similar strategies. October 15, 2018 Justin Wade Hubbard, _Vanderbilt University_ The toll of the opioid epidemic is often derived from toxicology reports. These rely on drug tests. A

medical historian explains these tests and how they fall short of capturing why people are dying. August 21, 2018 Claire Hooks, _Anglia Ruskin University_ The opioid crisis in the US has

quadrupled the number of babies born addicted to drugs. May 15, 2018 Susan Sered, _Suffolk University_ A bill to deal with the opioid crisis recently came out of a Senate committee. While

some of its recommendations are good, some key points are missing. April 30, 2018 Jamie Smolen, _University of Florida_ Opioid addiction is a serious public health problem, killing more than

42,000 people a year and ruining families. But alcohol is still the deadliest drug in the US. An addiction expert tells why. February 27, 2018 Paul R. Sanberg, _University of South Florida_

and Samantha Portis, _University of South Florida_ As the nation grapples with its opioid addiction epidemic, an understanding of how the drugs affect people is important. The powerful

class of drugs actually can change the brain.