The opioid drug that addicts don't like could be approved next spring

An experimental drug from Nektar Therapeutics Inc. is heading into regulatory review — and abusers of pain-killing opioid drugs may not like it. The oral drug, called NKTR-181, would be the first full mu-opioid — "mu" marking one of three receptors of powerful, addictive opioids — to be developed in more than 50 years. But the San Francisco-based company (NASDAQ: NKTR) first may have to convince a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel that its rewards outweigh its risks for people with…
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