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JOURNAL OF ADDICTIVE DISEASES
Volume 30, Issue 3, Pages 258-270Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/10550887.2011.581985
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Emotion; hyperalgesia; opiates; pain modulation; withdrawal
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [T32MH065728] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NIMH NIH HHS [T32-MH65728, T32 MH065728, T32 MH065728-08] Funding Source: Medline
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This study examined the effect of emotion on opiate withdrawal induced hyperalgesia to determine whether emotional states modulate the magnitude of hyperalgesia. One hundred Hispanic men were recruited into one of three groups: heroin withdrawal, long-term heroin abstinence, and control. Participants were presented with pictures to induce neutral, positive, and negative emotional states. Affective valence, arousal, pain threshold, and tolerance to ischemic pain were measured. When pain threshold and tolerance were compared, the withdrawal group displayed significant heightened pain sensitivity when negative affect was induced. The authors also found that former heroin addicts showed heightened pain sensitivity following months of abstinence.
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