The bill’s full name is the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl (or HALT) Act. It means traffickers of fentanyl-related substances would face tougher prison sentences. Southwest Virginia ...

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The aroma emitted by these flowering cannabis plants is a far cry from the musky stink you might encounter on a city street.

In this study, we used the molecular dynamics conformations obtained from MD simulations of a previous work in our laboratory, involving our four GPCR structures of interest [adenosine receptor A2A, ...

The drug supply is constantly evolving, and some experts suggest that a “fourth wave” of the opioid epidemic is underway, in ...

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Opioids reduce pain by binding to receptors in the brain that receive nerve signals from different parts of the body. Those chemical interactions also give rise to opioids' addictive effects.