peripheral

This shouldn’t be surprising, given its highly specific, peripheral mechanism.

“The next step for this project is to move beyond naloxone methiodide and evaluate already FDA-approved peripheral antagonists and see if we can repurpose them to use in an overdose setting,” he says.

That creates what Mr Willison describes as an "immunological Russian roulette", triggering an "acute neurological tsunami" that surges through the peripheral nervous system.

When you get to be a certain age, you’re mostly asked to play a grandmother, not the heart of the story; you’re peripheral in a lot of ways.

"They would never say, 'Who did he choose?' I don't even think it was in people's peripheral."