Publication Date:
2018-08-15
Description:
Opioids are well-known to be lethally addictive, spurring a nationwide crisis. Less well-known are the drugs’ other complications: dangerous breathing difficulties, nausea, gastrointestinal distress, and paradoxically, a hypersensitization that worsens feelings of pain. Inevitably, frequent users grow tolerant of the drugs’ pain-relieving effects, leading them to use increasingly higher doses...
Keywords:
Inner Workings, Front Matter
Print ISSN:
0027-8424
Electronic ISSN:
1091-6490
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
,
Natural Sciences in General
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