About half of all patients in recovery will slip up within six months, so medications that force patients to comply with their treatment schedules will make a real difference, said Nora D. Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Trump administration says it's developing medications to help wean people off opioids →
"We are pleased to have uncovered a potential new mechanism to create safer alternatives to opioid medications, ones that would be far less likely to cause the side effects that lead to overdose deaths associated with the misuse of opioids," Nora D. Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said last week. "We are excited that basic research on how opioid drugs work in the brain has led to this novel approach, and that we continue to make critical progress in this area."
FDA pushes companies to develop opioids that resist abuse →
