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Pharmacology/Drug Development


2021 Feb 19


Br J Clin Pharmacol

The Oxford Catalogue of Opioids: a systematic synthesis of opioid drug names and their pharmacology.

Authors

Richards GC, Sitkowski K, Heneghan C, Aronson JK
Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2021 Feb 19.
PMID: 33608948.

Abstract

The growing demand for analgesia, coupled with an increasing need to treat opioid dependence and overdose, has escalated the development of novel opioids. We aimed to quantify the number of opioid drugs developed and to catalogue them based on their pharmacology.