New paper discussing the assessment of abuse liability using blood-brain barrier QSAR models

Last year, we discussed the development of a new solution to support the assessment of abuse liability.1 This included a large database of over 4,000 chemicals from numerous sources including the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) scheduled drugs and structural alerts to profile potential abuse liability. This assessment has now been extended to include a …

Using in silico approaches to assess abuse liability

In part fueled by the Opioid crisis, the assessment of abuse liability is an area of increased scrutiny. An FDA guidance outlines some recommendations on how to assess abuse potential1.  Several recent publications have illustrated how in silico approaches could be applied to this problem.2,3 Such an assessment could be used as part of early …