Temple Update Interviews Dr. Anjali Rajadhyaksha on Team’s Research That Could Address Highly Addictive Nature of Opioids

Temple Update interviewed Anjali Rajadhyaksha, PhD, Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Research at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, about her team’s research on increasing the levels of chemicals naturally produced in the body called endocannabinoids, which may thwart the highly addictive nature of opioids such as morphine and oxycodone while maintaining the drugs’ ability to relieve pain.