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The annual rate of of deaths each year is around the 17,000 mark. These deaths are highly preventable, each day doctors prescribe pain killers to patients, and these exact pain killers are gate ways to other, more dangerous drugs such as heroine. it has been known that 75% of all patients that got addicted to opioid products end up turning to heroine when the doctor decides that the patient does not need the pain killers anymore (retrieved from www.asam.org). with a total of 1.9 million recorded Americans addicted to opioid prescriptions its astonishing that the medical community doesn't invest in researching non addictive pain relievers. however there are a few medical researchers that do research on the possibilities of non opioid, non addictive pain killers. The problem with these are that they are expensive to make/produce and not many people know of them. there is a medical research division in France that is researching a chemical compound called "Opiorphin" this substance is found in human saliva and has been tested to be 6-10 times more effective than morphine or opioid based substances with the usage of only 1-2 milligrams. The set backs to working with Opiorphin is that it is an expensive substance due to the dissoluteness of it inside of human saliva. one milligram of opiorphin on the market on average goes for $226 U.S. dollars, and the other is that not much is known on the makeup of the chemical other than that human opiorphin QRFSR-peptide protects enkephalins from degradation by human neutral endopeptidase (hNEP) and aminopeptidase-N (hAP-N) and inhibits pain perception in a behavioral model of mechanical acute pain.
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