WIRED ScienceScientists Just Solved a Major Piece of the Opioid Puzzle
Published Jan 9, 2018, 7:12 AM
When it comes to tackling the opioid crisis, public health workers start with the drugs: fentanyl, morphine, heroin. But biochemists have a different focus: Not the opioids, but opioid receptors—the proteins the drugs latch onto within the body. These receptors embed themselves in the walls of cells throughout the brain and peripheral nervous system.
