We're having breakthroughs also in your area, some exciting opioid research results from NIDA intramural research team. And I'm not even going to try to say his last name, so I'm just going to say Dr. Mike and his team identified a novel, highly potent opioid that shows potential therapy for pain and opioid use disorder. Could you describe that research, please? Yeah, thanks very much for the question. And it is actually quite important because the overdose crisis was born out of lack of treatments for people suffering from chronic pain that led to the use of opioids. (00:01–03:54)
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