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Science 11 July 2003:
Vol. 301. no. 5630, p. 150
DOI: 10.1126/science.301.5630.150a
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MEDICINE:
A Sigh of Relief for Painkillers

Jennifer Couzin

Opiates are powerful painkillers, but they come with some baggage: a troubling tendency to depress breathing. By giving an experimental drug along with a narcotic, researchers report on page 226 that they eliminated the opiate's potentially lethal side effect while preserving its ability to blunt pain.

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