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.

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 ...

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.

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

Yet even at this early stage in the war, ensuring people can secure medication is proving difficult. Of the 1,328 people registered with drug services in Kyiv, so far, most have been able to get their ...

The United Kingdom government advised services to transfer most patients from daily supervised consumption to take home doses and to lengthen prescriptions, as well as to maximise interventions to ...

Opioid-related deaths are declining for the first time in nearly a decade as opiate bridge programming enrollment has increased, Austin-Travis County EMS officials confirmed at the city’s ...