Today a new opioid medication is making its way into treatment facilities, doctorâs offices, and even homes. Buprenorphine is a partial opioid agonist, which causes it to be less addictive than either heroin or methadone. The âhighâ produced by buprenorphine is less intense, and the side effects are less dangerous.
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What are vitamins and how do they work? If you have read the article How Cells Work, then you know that DNA is a template for different enzymes. Enzymes help cells to carry out chemical reactions. A cell is really just an extremely sophisticated chemical machine. A vitamin is a small molecule that your body needs to carry out a certain reaction. Your body has no way to create vitamin molecules itself, so the vitamin molecules must come in through food that you eat.