by Susan Keown | Dec 3, 2022 | ScienceWire
New member Will Stone (@WStoneReports) co-authored a story for NPR about new federal guidelines for prescribing opioid medications, which should give doctors more leeway to prescribe them to people who need them. Stone and his co-author explain that the new guidelines...
by Wudan Yan | Jun 25, 2019 | Past Events
The opioid epidemic is taking the U.S., by storm, with people dying every day from opioid-related drug overdoses. But within what seems to be a bleak situation, researchers are looking at interventions to treat opioid addiction and related overdoses. NSWA hosted an...
by Chris Tachibana | Feb 2, 2019 | ScienceWire
When people overdose from opioids, Sarah McQuate writes, their breathing slows dramatically. At this point, the emergency medication naloxone might save their life—if someone knew to administer it. In UW News, Sarah (@potassiumwhale) tells of the Second Chance...
by Chris Tachibana | Dec 3, 2018 | ScienceWire
Feeling the effects of opioids requires more than just taking a pill, Wudan Yan writes. In Nature Medicine, she reports on studies showing that, in mice at least, the bacterial composition of the gut influences sensitivity to morphine and related drugs. Read the...
by Chris Tachibana | May 3, 2018 | ScienceWire
Underlying the U.S. opioid-addiction crisis is widespread chronic pain, writes Catherine Arnold—and we have few treatment options. In a piece that won a 2018 gold Hermes Creative Award, Catherine tells of a University of Utah Health research team that has a $10...
