Word: agonist
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Like methadone, the compound that activates D1 appears to be what is known as a partial agonist. Because such medications stimulate some of the same brain pathways as drugs of abuse, they are often addictive in their own right, though less so. And while treating heroin addicts with methadone may seem like a cop-out to people who have never struggled with a drug habit, clinicians say they desperately need more such agents to tide addicts--particularly cocaine addicts--over the first few months of treatment, when the danger of relapse is highest...
...drug is an attractive alternative to beta-agonist, the traditional asthma treatment which is taken as an inhalant. Rather than simply relaxing muscles which have already contracted, zileuton inhibits activity of the molecule which initially causes the muscle to contract...
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