Sentence examples for opioid from inspiring English sources
The word "opioid" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to any type of opioid drug, such as a prescription painkiller, or when discussing the issues associated with opioid addiction. Example Sentence: The opioid crisis has become a pressing issue in many communities as overdoses and deaths related to opioids continue to rise.
noun
A substance that has similar to opium effects.
In some states the number of opioid prescriptions written each year now exceeds the number of people.
This included a high dose of OxyContin, a popular brand of opioid pill.
Drug addicts are given heroin substitutes such as methadone and Subutex, a brand of the opioid buprenorphine; these can be traded.
In America, a recent study of wastewater in New York state found by-products of cocaine, opioid drugs and hallucinogens.
Placebos also lead to the release of the body's own opioid painkillers in those suffering from pain.Both Dr Diederich and Dr Benedetti point to a technique called hidden dosing that demonstrates the power of the placebo effect.
But opioid receptors come in several varieties, two of the most important of which are known as mu and kappa.
Though the data do not account for any illegal substances a mother may be taking, diagnostic and demographic information on millions of newborns from two national databases the Kid's Inpatient Database and the Nationwide Inpatient Sample found that the rise in the number of babies born with withdrawal symptoms mirrors the rise in prescriptions for opioid pain relievers (OPRs).
In such cases, drugs such as naloxone and naltrexone provide molecules that bind to opioid receptors with a higher affinity than the opioids themselves, but do not activate the receptors.
This is a fairly accurate description of what opium or heroin does when it hits the opioid-receptors in the brain.
Men, however, report the opposite preference when they are in pain.Both nalbuphine and morphine work by stimulating the brain's endogenous-opioid receptors (endogenous opioids are the molecules that opium-derived drugs mimic).
The results suggest that kappa-opioid agonists not only fail to alleviate pain in men, they can actually make it worse.Dr Gear and Dr Levine believe that as well as an analgesia (ie, pain-suppression) circuit, the brain contains what they call an anti-analgesia circuit one which, when activated, pumps pain up.
