Opioids and Addiction  Pain Mitigation and/or Exacerbation (or Worse)
The Story	Abstracts		JSmol Animations
Google Docs Non-Editable Presentation	Endogenous Opioids  Natural Pain Relievers Exogenous Opioids:  Dual Edged Pharmaceuticals Treatments for Overdose and Addiction Mu Opioid Receptors with Opioids		Endogenous Opioids...Nature's Pain Relievers Exogenous Opiods: Dual Edged Pharmaceuticals First Synthetics/Extracts New Age Synthetics Treatments for Overdose and Addiction Mu Opioid Receptors with Opioids
JSmol model of the Mu Opioid Receptor coupled with a G Protein Complex from pdb file 6dde	SMART Team Members	Our team was greatly assisted by these two mentors     UW-Madison Pharmacological Researcher Dr. Cody Wenthur Dr. Wenthur's lab is working to develop therapeutics to battle addiction and psychiatric illnesses. Ms. Melissa Moore of the Marathon County Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission

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Background image is a collage from images of alpha-endorphin, naloxone, beta-endorphin, buprenorphine, leu-enkephalin, codeine, fentanyl, heroin, hydrocodone, morphine and oxycodone, and various crystallized mu opioid receptors and G protein complexes from student Jmol interpretations of the following Protein Data Bank Files 4DKL, 5C1M, and 6dde and SMILES files from Wikipedia pages