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None, that is, until Dr. Jon Levine and his team at the University of California, San Francisco, took pains to investigate. Using drugs called kappa opioids, a form of opiate commonly used to ease labor pains, they gave intravenous doses to 28 men and 20 women, all in their early 20s, who had just had wisdom teeth extracted...
...kappa opioids favor females? Could estrogen, the female hormone, somehow enhance the drugs' effectiveness, or might the male hormone, testosterone, hamper it? Another possibility, Levine suggests, is that women's brains have more--or more responsive--kappa receptors, enabling the kappa opioids to block pain more effectively...
While earlier tests had concluded that these opioids are not effective pain killers, other than for labor, some doctors suspect the results may have been skewed by a preponderance of male test subjects. Indeed, Levine now suggests that kappa opioids might be generally used to treat acute pain in women. Unlike morphine-like drugs, they have few unpleasant side effects, and they are not addictive...
Typically, students are nominated for Phi Beta Kappa based on their relative performance against other students in their concentration...
...Beta Kappa is an honor society that recognizes no more than 10 percent of each graduating class based on academic achievement and faculty recommendations...