1/12/2012, High-dose opiates could crack chronic pain

http://www.nature.com/news/high-dose-opiates-could-crack-chronic-pain-1.9796

“Has a cheap and effective treatment for chronic pain been lying under clinicians’ noses for decades? Researchers have found that a very high dose of an opiate drug that uses the same painkilling pathways as morphine can reset the nerve signals associated with continuous pain — at least in rats.”