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Tech

To Solve Opioid Addiction, We Still Need to Solve Pain

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By Michael Byrne
Tech

New Morphine Alternative Kills Pain Without the OD Risk

08.17.16

By Michael Byrne
Tech

A Successful New HIV-Nuking Drug Wasn’t Even Designed for HIV

05.19.16

By Michael Byrne
Tech

How Do You Confuse Two Lethal Injection Drugs? We Asked a Pharmacologist

10.09.15

By Kaleigh Rogers
Tech

How Ancient Chinese Remedies and a Secret Research Program Led to a Nobel Prize

10.05.15

By Kaleigh Rogers
Tech

The First Real Smart Drug? Researchers Say Modafinil Works

08.21.15

By Victoria Turk
Tech

The Drug Behind Last Year’s Three Botched Executions Is About to Be Used Again

01.14.15

By Ben Richmond
Drugs

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By Kyle Jaeger
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