Opioids Stocks List
Symbol | Grade | Name | % Change | |
---|---|---|---|---|
TEVA | A | Teva Pharmaceutical Industries | 0.05 | |
BWAY | A | Brainsway Ltd. | 2.30 | |
AQST | A | Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc. | 0.55 | |
AMPH | A | Amphastar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 0.40 | |
ENSC | B | Ensysce Biosciences, Inc. | 12.85 | |
NTRB | B | Nutriband Inc. | -4.20 | |
ALTS | B | ALT5 Sigma Corporation | -3.63 | |
LQDA | C | Liquidia Technologies, Inc. | 1.20 | |
NKTR | C | Nektar Therapeutics | 3.36 | |
PMD | C | Psychemedics Corporation | -0.43 |
Related Industries: Biotechnology Conglomerates Diagnostics & Research Drug Manufacturers - General Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic Software - Application
Symbol | Grade | Name | Weight | |
---|---|---|---|---|
ISRA | A | Market Vectors Israel ETF | 9.56 | |
MNTL | D | Tema Neuroscience and Mental Health ETF | 4.01 | |
THNR | F | Amplify Weight Loss Drug & Treatment ETF | 3.75 | |
PPH | D | Market Vectors Pharmaceutical ETF | 3.64 | |
PJP | C | PowerShares Dynamic Pharmaceuticals | 3.46 |
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- Opioids
Opioids are substances that act on opioid receptors to produce morphine-like effects. Medically they are primarily used for pain relief, including anesthesia. Other medical uses include suppression of diarrhea, replacement therapy for opioid use disorder, reversing opioid overdose, suppressing cough, suppressing opioid induced constipation, as well as for executions in the United States. Extremely potent opioids such as carfentanil are only approved for veterinary use. Opioids are also frequently used non-medically for their euphoric effects or to prevent withdrawal.
Side effects of opioids may include itchiness, sedation, nausea, respiratory depression, constipation, and euphoria. Tolerance and dependence will develop with continuous use, requiring increasing doses and leading to a withdrawal syndrome upon abrupt discontinuation. The euphoria attracts recreational use and frequent, escalating recreational use of opioids typically results in addiction. An overdose or concurrent use with other depressant drugs commonly results in death from respiratory depression.Opioids act by binding to opioid receptors, which are found principally in the central and peripheral nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract. These receptors mediate both the psychoactive and the somatic effects of opioids. Opioid drugs include partial agonists, like the anti-diarrhea drug loperamide and antagonists like naloxegol for opioid-induced constipation, which do not cross the blood-brain barrier, but can displace other opioids from binding to those receptors.
Because opioids are addictive and may result in fatal overdose, most are controlled substances. In 2013, between 28 and 38 million people used opioids illicitly (0.6% to 0.8% of the global population between the ages of 15 and 65). In 2011, an estimated 4 million people in the United States used opioids recreationally or were dependent on them. As of 2015, increased rates of recreational use and addiction are attributed to over-prescription of opioid medications and inexpensive illicit heroin. Conversely, fears about over-prescribing, exaggerated side effects and addiction from opioids are similarly blamed for under-treatment of pain.
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