At the 2025 European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Congress in Amsterdam this week, researchers presented new findings on the role of endocannabinoids in stress, addiction … and the integrity of the blood-brain-barrier.
At the 2025 European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Congress in Amsterdam this week, researchers presented new findings on the role of endocannabinoids in stress, addiction … and the integrity of the blood-brain-barrier.
Orexo AB’s subsidiary Orexo US Inc. has been awarded $8 million in funding by the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to support the development of OX-390, an intranasal rescue medication for adulterated opioid overdoses.
Atai Life Sciences NV has been awarded a multiyear, milestone-driven grant worth up to $11.4 million by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to support development of Atai’s novel 5-HT2A/2C receptor agonists with nonhallucinogenic potential for opioid use disorder.
Elysium Therapeutics Inc. aims to tackle the problem of opioid overdose with a longer-lasting rescue agent that gets around the not-much-publicized problem of fentanyl rebound, or re-narcotization, which happens when the standard reverser wears off and the culprit drug stays active in the body, potentially killing the patient.
Elysium Therapeutics Inc. aims to tackle the problem of opioid overdose with a longer-lasting rescue agent that gets around the not-much-publicized problem of fentanyl rebound, or re-narcotization, which happens when the standard reverser wears off and the culprit drug stays active in the body, potentially killing the patient.
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and the Psychiatric Center Copenhagen have uncovered the cellular and synaptic effects of the drug VU-0364572, a selective modulator of the M1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor.
Mira Pharmaceuticals Inc. has announced new animal study results with SKNY-1, highlighting its potential as an oral therapeutic to address both obesity and nicotine addiction. This follows the recent report of in vitro data on SKNY-1.
Mira Pharmaceuticals Inc. has reported new in vitro preclinical data supporting the therapeutic potential of SKNY-1, a next-generation oral drug candidate being developed by Skny Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Opioid use disorder (OUD) remains a significant public health crisis, with over 5 million people diagnosed in the U.S. in 2023 and more than 80,000 fatal overdoses involving opioids each year. Current FDA-approved medications for OUD target the micro-opioid receptor, but these treatments are still associated with high relapse rates during abstinence.