The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
hopefully I think we frankly can expect that it's also going to eventually lead to ways to prevent death in people using opioids or other types of drugs, maybe by blocking opioid receptors in pre-Botzinger complex using things like naltrexone, et cetera.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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Exogenous opioids like fentanyl and drugs that are similar to that can shut down that structure because it's rich with these opioid receptors. So it binds to that, and it shuts off the pre-Botzinger complex, which is the major cause of death of people who die from opioid overdoses.
Exogenous opioids like fentanyl and other sorts of drugs, which are opioids obviously, bind to opioid receptors on that structure and shut it down. [...] So it binds to that, and it shuts off the pre-Botzinger complex, which is the major cause of death of people who die from opioid overdoses.