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How AI Can Help Design Drugs to Treat Opioid Addiction

Posted in biotech/medical, robotics/AI

Summary: Researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to find novel drugs that can block kappa opioid receptors with the hope to alleviate opioid addiction.

Source: Biophysical Society.

Approximately three million Americans suffer from opioid use disorder, and every year more than 80,000 Americans die from overdoses.