Utah researchers get federal funds to study nonaddictive alternatives to opioids


University of Utah Health researchers will use $2.6 million from the National Institutes of Health to study new substances to see if they can be effective in treating pain without the addictive side effects of opioids. The funds, announced late last month, are to be used over the course of the year by University of Utah Health's College of Pharmacy, which will oversee the testing of "blinded samples of small compounds, natural products and biologics" sent out for testing by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the university said in a release.



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