Assessing pain in persons with opioid use disorder: Approaches, techniques and special considerations

JC Nunes, GPA Costa, J Weleff… - British Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Pain and opioid use disorder (OUD) are inextricably linked, as the former can be a risk factor
for the development of the latter, and over a third of persons with OUD suffer concomitant …

[HTML][HTML] Secondary analysis: heat and self-report pain sensitivity associate with biological sex and racialized sociocultural group but may not be mediated by anxiety …

TJ Meeker, HJ Kim, IK Tulloch, ML Keaser… - Pain …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Methods: Using quantitative sensory testing for painful heat, STMP (forces: 64, 128, 256, and
512 mN), and PSQ, we evaluated pain sensitivity in 134 healthy participants [34 (18 women) …

Disentangling the effects of racism-related stress on opioid use disorder and chronic pain outcomes

JC Nunes, OO Jegede… - The American Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years, Black people in the US have had one of the highest increases in opioid
overdose mortality rates, despite being less likely to be prescribed opioids for pain. This …

Endogenous opiates and behavior: 2023

RJ Bodnar - Peptides, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper is the forty-sixth consecutive installment of the annual anthological review of
research concerning the endogenous opioid system, summarizing articles published during …