Topics and Expertise: addiction

Fentanyl testing could curb overdose crisis

Mon Oct 2, 2023
2 mg of Fentanyl next to penny.
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2 milligrams of fentanyl—a lethal dose in most people—next to a penny.

Successful UCSF-VA pilot paved the way for a testing initiative across the United States.

Shoichet co-led research develops safer, potentially less addictive painkiller

Wed Aug 17, 2016
Shoichet
Elisabeth Fall

Brian Shoichet, PhD

Research co-led by UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Brian Shoichet, PhD, has developed a new opioid drug candidate that blocks pain as effectively as morphine in mice, without triggering dangerous side effects, and also apparently without the addictive properties of current prescription...