{"id":128909,"date":"2021-10-12T22:22:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T05:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/uci-led-study-finds-medicinal-plant-extract-to-prevent-morphine-addiction"},"modified":"2021-10-12T22:22:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T05:22:23","slug":"uci-led-study-finds-medicinal-plant-extract-to-prevent-morphine-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/uci-led-study-finds-medicinal-plant-extract-to-prevent-morphine-addiction","title":{"rendered":"UCI-led study finds medicinal plant extract to prevent morphine addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uci-led-study-finds-medicinal-plant-extract-to-prevent-morphine-addiction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Irvine, Calif., Oct. 12 2021 \u2014 <\/strong>The extract of the plant <em>Corydalis yanhusuo<\/em> prevents morphine tolerance and dependence while also reversing opiate addiction, according to a recent study led by the University of California, Irvine. The findings were published in the October issue of the journal <em>Pharmaceuticals<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>(Link to study: <a href=\"https:\/\/pharmsci.uci.edu\/uci-led-study-finds-medicinal-plant-extract-to-prevent-morphine-addiction-and-potentially-help-curb-the-opioid-epidemic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pharmsci.uci.edu\/uci-led-study-finds-medicinal-plant-extract-to-prevent-morphine-addiction-and-potentially-help-curb-the-opioid-epidemic\/\">https:\/\/pharmsci.uci.edu\/uci-led-study-finds-medicinal-plant\u2026-epidemic\/<\/a><\/a>) <\/p>\n<p>Over the past two decades, dramatic increases in opioid overdose mortality have occurred in the United States and other nations. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the opioid epidemic has only worsened. The documented effects of YHS, the extract of the plant <em>Corydalis yanhusuo<\/em>, could have an immediate, positive impact to curb the opioid epidemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irvine, Calif., Oct. 12 2021 \u2014 The extract of the plant Corydalis yanhusuo prevents morphine tolerance and dependence while also reversing opiate addiction, according to a recent study led by the University of California, Irvine. The findings were published in the October issue of the journal Pharmaceuticals. (Link to study: https:\/\/pharmsci.uci.edu\/uci-led-study-finds-medicinal-plant\u2026-epidemic\/) Over the past two [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}