I attended a pain conference recently, and this subject came up:
Opiates actually stimulating pain, thru the reaction of glial cells in the nervous system sending out inflammatory cytokines that induce further pain response.
This is one paper that discusses it:
http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v2.../1300315a.html
If you Google "morphine glial cells" you can find others.
This is pretty new, and some doctors are unaware of this research at this time. But this finding is explaining why people with chronic head pain, develop MORE pain when using opiates for it.
Other links of interest:
http://www.colorado.edu/honors/Honor...teraction.html
and this is interesting too:
http://www.neurologyreviews.com/09mar/C1.html
This is a pretty complex subject.
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