%0 Journal Article %T The opioid crisis and ˇ­ reconsidering the use of drugs that affect body temperature %A Amol Patwardhan %A Andrej A. Romanovsky %A Frank Porreca %A William K. Schmidt %J Archive of "Temperature: Multidisciplinary Biomedical Journal". %D 2018 %R 10.1080/23328940.2018.1437312 %X The New York Times recently reported that opioids are now the leading cause of death of Americans under the age of 50 [1]. This shocking statistic is a current assessment of the deadly effects of opioids due primarily to respiratory depression in what has now become known as the ˇ°opioid epidemicˇ± %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5902230/