Sex differences affect efficacy of opioid overdose treatment, whole-body PET study reveals

Naloxone (also known as Narcan, the commonly used drug to treat narcotic overdoses) has greater binding to opioid receptors in women’s brains than in men’s brains, according to new research published in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

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