Opioids

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Opioids

One of the major classes of semi or fully synthetic psycho-active drugs that includes methadone.

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opioid

Neurology A pain-attenuating peptide that occurs naturally in the brain, which induces analgesia by mimicking endogenous opioids at opioid receptors in the brain. See Opioid-mediated analgesia system.

Opioids

Agonists The most potent opioid agonists are morphine, meperidine, methadone; other opioids include hydromorphine–Dilaudid^®, codeine, oxycodone–Percodan^®, propoxyphene–Darvon^®

Antagonists Naloxone–Narcan^®

Mixed agonsts-antagonists Pentazocine–Talwin^®

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