Replacing Opioids: Natural Compound Promises Pain Relief Without Addiction

Scitech Daily ^ | JULY 19, 2024 | JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY MAINZ

[BipolarBob]

Soon to be bought up and price goes up exponentially by Big Pharma.

[Carry_Okie]

Soon to be bought up and price goes up exponentially by Big Pharma.

One wonders about the ubiquity of this fungus, how readily it can be replicated, and how easy it is to isolate the active.

[marktwain]

Calculations on a computer are not testing.

They are modeling.

Computers models are not the real world, they are an imperfect simulacra of the real world.

[Gen.Blather]

When opioid receptors are blocked the cells immediately produce more receptors. This is key to addiction. The more receptors the more receptor blockers required. Did I miss how this self-defeating pain problem is addressed by the new substance? If the problem isn’t addressed, they’ve simply found a new artificial “opioid.”

[LouAvul]

FR’s libertarian addicts will be sorry to learn of this.

[moovova]

A marine fungus will now be a controlled substance?

[eyeamok]

Stick with what God made, Opiates. They work and they work very well. There was a time in this country when Doctors were allowed to actually practice medicine, NOT Insurance companies and the opiates literally saved my life in 1979, and since Doctors were allowed to Doctor, I spent a week in a hospital bed going thru withdrawls under doctors care before I had my surgery.

I believe the Forst and Only step we need to take to alleviatye the problem is to make it a MKajor Felony for ANY person to prescribe or offer to prescribe ANY OPIATE derivitve to ANY Public Employee or Officer of the COurt. Let them live without them first.

[z3n]

Did I miss how this self-defeating pain problem is addressed by the new substance?

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I missed it too but I skimmed and skipped when reading. I was trying to find an answer to that very question. The substance binds to opioid receptors. Cool story. How is that different than opioids and why can’t it be abused?

[RummyChick]

I think low dose naltrexone is suppose to bind and block receptors

[Pontiac]

The main problem is street drugs and the fact that the synthetic opioid heroin, in particular, is cut with other, cheaper opioids, such as fentanyl.

Since when is heroin a synthetic drug.

Science writers aren't what they used to be.

Or maybe this article was written by AI.

[xoxox]

about halfway through Lent fast everything stopped hurting.

[curious7]

The work around to your suggestion is they will quit, get the script, then be rehired. You might want to make it contingent on NEVER working for the government at any level.

[eyeamok]

I am good with that and until they are forced to live under their own rules, nothing will change for the better.

[Thomas Jerome]

Worry not. People will always find a way to ruin their lives no matter what.

[logi_cal869]

Here we go again.

*sigh*

People need to be DEprogrammed from believing that most pain is natural and resolved by pharmacological methods.

Most ‘pain’ - a purely personal definition in nearly every case, i.e., NOT by injury - is self-inflicted by choice, ignorant or otherwise.

Free advice: Educate yourselves.

[BipolarBob]

One wonders about the ubiquity of this fungus, how readily it can be replicated, and how easy it is to isolate the active.

In that case, outlaw it. Big Pharma owns the guv.

[Mastador1]

Addictive personalities will always find something to be addicted too! The fearmongers love to cry that Opioids turn everyone into addicts, it's just not true, there are millions of people like just like me that need Opioids to manage chronic pain that are not addicted, I take them twice a day to control the pain but on good days when I can get by without it I don't go into withdrawal. If this works for some people more power to them but people with chronic severe pain? I doubt it will be effective.

[Faith65]

bfl

[Albion Wilde]

Ping!