Patients taking long term opioids produce antibodies against the drugs – EurekAlert Science News

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have made a significant discovery regarding back-pain patients on opioid painkillers, finding that a majority of these patients produced anti-opioid antibodies. The presence of these antibodies might contribute to the negative side effects of prolonged opioid use and could potentially hinder the effectiveness of an anti-opioid vaccine, which researchers aim to […]

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