
Medicine
When Opioids Backfire
Our most powerful painkillers can actually make some patients more sensitive to pain
Dara Bree is a researcher at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. His research seeks to better understand the mechanisms of pain and headache to facilitate the development of new treatments.
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