“At high doses, opioid painkillers actually seem to amplify pain by changing signaling in the central nervous system, making the body generally more sensitive to painful stimuli.”
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Among some veterans, painkiller misuse strongly linked to starting heroin
A new Brown University study of nearly 3,400 veterans over ten years found that when participants began to misuse opioid painkillers, they had a very high likelihood of also beginning […]