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In 2012, as the driver of deaths in the opioid<\/a> crisis began moving from prescription pills to heroin, Laura Bohn was tasked with finding safer drugs to manage pain.<\/p>\n

Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, in 2017 she and other scientists revealed in the science journal Cell<\/a> that several compounds\u2014including a particularly promising one called SR-17018\u2014could relieve pain in mice without causing respiratory depression. That\u2019s a big deal, because respiratory depression is typically what causes people using opioids to stop breathing and die.<\/p>\n

Bohn, senior associate vice president of research at University of South Florida Health, says her team filed a patent on SR-17018. They went on to discover that mice using the chemical did not develop a high tolerance for it and that mice already dependent on morphine\u2014a powerful opioid\u2014could consume SR-17018 to reset their tolerance without suffering from painful withdrawal symptoms.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no longer just mice who use SR-17018.<\/p>\n

On Reddit<\/a> and Discord<\/a>, people who use drugs frequently refer to the compound as a godsend that\u2019s helped them quit using opioids they\u2019re addicted to. Until very recently, the drug, though not regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration<\/a>, was relatively easy to purchase online, as it was not a federally controlled substance. Bohn, meanwhile, has been in the process of trying to conduct clinical trials on humans, which has never been done.<\/p>\n

But all of that came crashing to a halt when the US Drug Enforcement Administration emergency-scheduled SR-17018 as a Schedule I controlled substance in late August, putting it in the same category as heroin with \u201cno currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Bohn, the move will make it much harder to do the research she\u2019s been planning. \u201cIt’s a real hassle,\u201d she tells WIRED. \u201cRight now, I would like to have it tested for additional safety studies, and I can’t have it made, I can’t ship it, I can’t touch it. I can’t do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

For drug users who hope to use it to wean off opioids\u2014despite the lack of clinical evidence that the drug is effective in humans\u2014it\u2019s the removal of a potential off-ramp for their addictions.<\/p>\n

Jim Bates has been hooked on various opioids, including prescription pills, heroin, and fentanyl, since he was 25. About two years ago, the 53-year-old Duncan, Oklahoma, kitchen manager got addicted to 7-OH<\/a>, a concentrated compound found in kratom that activates the brain\u2019s opioid receptors. \u201cThat shit blew my head off,\u201d he says, noting he was introduced to it at a vape shop. \u201cIt was a whole lot like heroin.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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