AUTHOR=Cox Brian M. , Toll Lawrence TITLE=Contributions of the International Narcotics Research Conference to Opioid Research Over the Past 50 years JOURNAL=Advances in Drug and Alcohol Research VOLUME=2 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontierspartnerships.org/journals/advances-in-drug-and-alcohol-research/articles/10.3389/adar.2022.10115 DOI=10.3389/adar.2022.10115 ISSN=2674-0001 ABSTRACT=

The International Narcotics Research Conference (INRC), founded in 1969, has been a successful forum for research into the actions of opiates, with an annual conference since 1971. Every year, scientists from around the world have congregated to present the latest data on novel opiates, opiate receptors and endogenous ligands, mechanisms of analgesic activity and unwanted side effects, etc. All the important discoveries in the opiate field were discussed, often first, at the annual INRC meeting. With an apology to important events and participants not discussed, this review presents a short history of INRC with a discussion of groundbreaking discoveries in the opiate field and the researchers who presented from the first meeting up to the present.