Tag: depression and opioid

Feeling Good with Narcotics Now ā€œEvidenceā€ of Opioid Deficiency: The Chemical...

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We have lost our ability to tolerate distress, to find meaning in emotion, and purpose in experience. As the sociologist Nicolas Rose has noted, we have recoded our moods in terms of neurochemistry. Emotions no longer have context. They are aberrations in neurochemistry. Iā€™m no longer hurting because Iā€™m lonely, but because Iā€™m running low on endorphins. Buprenorphine for depressive despair reinforces the belief that emotions should be obliterated, and can only be done so through modulating biochemistry.

Study Finds Long-Term Opioid Use Increases Depression Risk

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A study published this week in the Annals of Family Medicine reveals that opioid painkillers, when used long-term, can lead to the onset of depression. The researchers found that the link was independent of the contribution of pain to depression.