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Sensitized brain response to acute pain in patients using prescription opiates for chronic pain: A pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chronic opiate use leads to a sensitized behavioral response to acute pain, which in turn, leads to escalating doses of opiates. This study was designed to test the hypothesis that chronic opiate usage is also associated with a sensitized neurobiological response to acute pain in individuals that have used prescription opiates for 6 or more months.

Methods

Fourteen patients with non-alcoholic chronic pancreatitis that have been taking prescription opiates for 6 or more months and 14 gender matched, non-opiate using controls were enrolled. Functional neuroimaging data was acquired while participants received blocks of thermal stimulation to their wrist (individually-tailored to their pain threshold).

Results

Self-reported pain was significantly greater in opiate using patients (3.4 ± 3.4) than controls (0.2 ± 0.8: Brief Pain Inventory p < 0.005), however no significant difference between groups was observed in the individually-tailored pain thresholds. Opiate using patients evidenced a significantly greater response to pain than controls in two established nodes of the "Pain Matrix": somatosensory cortex (p_FWE≤0.001) and anterior cingulate cortex (p ≤ 0.01). This response was positively correlated with prescribed morphine equivalent dosages (average: 133.5 ± 94.8 mg/day).

Conclusion

The findings suggest that in chronic pancreatitis patients, a dose of opiates that normalizes their behavioral response to acute pain is associated with an amplified neural response to acute pain. Further longitudinal studies are needed to determine if this neural sensitization hastens a behavioral tolerance to opiates or the development of an opioid use disorder.

SUBMITTER: Dowdle LT

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6914256 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Sensitized brain response to acute pain in patients using prescription opiates for chronic pain: A pilot study.

Dowdle Logan T LT Borckardt Jeffrey J JJ Back Sudie E SE Morgan Katherine K Adams David D Madan Alok A Balliet Wendy W Hanlon Colleen A CA

Drug and alcohol dependence 20190423

<h4>Background</h4>Chronic opiate use leads to a sensitized behavioral response to acute pain, which in turn, leads to escalating doses of opiates. This study was designed to test the hypothesis that chronic opiate usage is also associated with a sensitized neurobiological response to acute pain in individuals that have used prescription opiates for 6 or more months.<h4>Methods</h4>Fourteen patients with non-alcoholic chronic pancreatitis that have been taking prescription opiates for 6 or more ...[more]

PMID: 31071496

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Sensitized brain response to acute pain in patients using prescription opiates for chronic pain: A pilot study.

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