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• Loperamide
  ...spx?CdrID=41911 US National Cancer Institute, Drug Dictionary]</ref> is an opioid [[medication|drug]] effective against [[diarrhea]] resulting from [[gastroe ...ioid]]-receptor [[agonist]] and acts on the [[Mu Opioid receptor|μ-opioid receptors]] in the [[myenteric plexus]] of the large intestine; by itself it does not
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• Buprenorphine
  ...diction in higher dosages (>2&nbsp;mg) and to control moderate pain in non-opioid tolerant individuals in lower dosages (~200&nbsp;µg). ...uprenorphine's high-dose sublingual pill preparations, were approved for [[opioid]] addiction treatment in September 2006. In the [[Netherlands]], Buprenorph
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• Fentanyl
  ..., it is a synthetic strong agonist at the [[mu opioid receptor|μ-opioid]] receptors. Historically it has been used to treat [[breakthrough pain|chronic breakth ...tanyl by assaying analogues of the structurally-related drug pethidine for opioid activity.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1021/jm040195b|url=http://www.pauljanss
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• Methadone
  ...chemically unlike [[morphine]] or [[heroin]], methadone also acts on the [[opioid receptor]]s and thus produces many of the same effects. Methadone is also u ...on of effect. Oral doses of methadone can stabilise patients by mitigating opioid [[withdrawal]] syndrome. Higher doses of methadone can block the euphoric e
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• Phencyclidine
  ...syn.20647 | author = Seeman P, Guan HC, Hirbec H | title = Dopamine D2High receptors stimulated by phencyclidines, lysergic acid diethylamide, salvinorin A, and ...nits - this may well be mediated by the lack of related efficacy at the mu-opioid receptor, though the NMDAR certainly does play a role in transmission of pa
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• Salvia divinorum
  ...potential]];<ref name="Zhang2005pabs" /><ref name="Valdés1983" /> as a κ-opioid agonist. ...ot contain a [[Base (chemistry)|basic]] [[nitrogen]]), unlike most known [[opioid receptor]] [[ligand]]s.<ref name="Harding2006p107">[[#refHarding2006|Hardin
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• Hydrocodone
  ...de a possible synergy of analgesic effects between hydrocodone and the non-opioid compounds present. However, the effectiveness and safety of hydrocodone com ...thadone linctus, about 33 percent the concentration of the liquid used for opioid physical dependence maintenance or detoxification) and [[dihydrocodeine]] b
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• Dextromethorphan
  ...oid]] analgesic. It is also a [[stereoisomer]] of [[levomethorphan]], an [[opioid]] [[analgesic]]. It is named according to [[IUPAC]] rules as (+)-3-methoxy ...n to possess the following properties, mainly in binding assays to various receptors of animal tissues.
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• Narcotic
  [[Image:Bayer Heroin bottle.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Heroin, a powerful opioid and narcotic.]] ...er of ways. Some people define narcotics as substances that bind at opiate receptors (cellular membrane proteins activated by substances like heroin or morphine
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• Etomidate
  ...etomidate and propofol at beta3-containing gamma-aminobutyric acid type A receptors. ''Neuropharmacology''. 2009 Sep;57(4):446-55. PMID 19555700</ref> ...{cite web|url=http://www.springerlink.com/content/u622522pgw454730/ |title=Opioid and benzodiazepine contributions to etomidate-associated adrenal insufficie
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• Propofol
  ..., and differential electrophysiological profile at recombinant human GABAA receptors. ''Journal of Medicinal Chemistry''. 1998 May 21;41(11):1846–54. PMID 959 ...al anesthesia. Its use is not associated with nausea as is often seen with opioid medications. These characteristics of rapid onset and recovery along with i
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• Gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid
  ...zitoyeva S, Satta R, Imbesi M, Yildiz S, Manev H |title=Drosophila GABA(B) receptors are involved in behavioral effects of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) |jour ...reas of the brain, including the cortex and hippocampus, and these are the receptors that GHB displays the highest affinity for. There has been somewhat limited
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