Last year, around 80,000 people died from an opioid overdose. While that’s fewer than were dying annually a few years ago, UT Health San Antonio professor of pharmacology and psychiatry Charles France, PhD, said it’s still far too many.
“There are medications out there, methadone, buprenorphine, naltrexone, drugs that can help these individuals,” France said, “But clearly more is needed.
As a researcher and as an educator, France has been studying this problem for years. Over the last few years, he’s turned his attention to drug development, and his lab has developed a new medication to add to that arsenal of medical weapons against the opioid crisis…