pain/opiates, perception vs. reality.

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With the FDA clamping down on prescribing pain medications in their misguided effort to prevent us all from becoming drug addicts, this article is timely.

http://edsinfo.wordpress.com/pain-opiates-perceptions-vs-reality/

 

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Going through some old files and found this:

Chronic Pain Harms the Brain.

Researchers found that in a healthy brain all the regions exist in a state of equilibrium. When one region is active, the others quiet down. But in people with chronic pain, a front region of the cortex mostly associated with emotion "never shuts up," said Dante Chialvo, lead author and associate research professor of physiology at the Feinberg School. "The areas that are affected fail to deactivate when they should."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080205171755.htm