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  • Researchers look at how opioids can increase pain sensitivity

    Aug 20, 2019 12:00 pm by Doris DahlResearch
    study co-authors Sandra Rodriguez-Zas and Jonathan Sweedler

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    • study co-authors Sandra Rodriguez-Zas and Jonathan Sweedler

    The chronic use of opioids can cause opioid-induced hyperalgesia, a condition where the patient receiving opioids for pain becomes more sensitive to certain kinds of pain.