A trial date was set for a federal civil suit that claims Publix fueled the country's opioid epidemic. The National ...

The Lake County Opiate Task Force announced this week its official name change to the Lake County Addiction Task Force. According to officials, the action marks a “significant step in the group’s ...

Publix Super Markets is accused in a lawsuit of dispensing opioids without red-flag controls, amid soaring sales of the prescriptions.

In this region, as in mice, there are many opiate receptors close to satiety neurons. "From an evolutionary perspective, this makes sense: sugar is rare in nature, but provides quick energy.

In mice and humans, the "dessert-stomach pathway" is activated by mere perception by releasing the opiate ß-endorphin, which makes evolutionary sense because sugar provides quick energy.

What makes xylazine so dangerous? It’s resistant to Narcan. “Xylazine, because it’s not an opiate, Narcan is not effective against it. We are in a crisis with fentanyl, so this is making it ...

Who hasn't been there? The big meal is over, you're full, but the craving for sweets remains. Researchers have now discovered that what we call the 'dessert stomach' is rooted in the brain.

Of the 1,328 people registered with drug services in Kyiv, so far, most have been able to get their opiate substitution medication. But services in other parts of the country aren’t faring so well.

When mice are full and eat sugar, these nerve cells not only release signaling molecules that stimulate satiety, but also one of the body's own opiate: ß-endorphin. This acts on other nerve cells ...

When mice are full and eat sugar, these nerve cells not only release signaling molecues that stimulate satiety, but also one of the body's own opiate: ß-endorphin. This acts on other nerve cells ...