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Dolorology (PAIN) with Rachel Zoffness

Ologies with Alie Ward

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What Are Medications Blocking?

All medications work in different ways, but they target receptors in your brain to block what I'm going to call pain messages. "Pain is so mistreated in our country and because there's such poor pain education," she says. Over time, opioids sensitize the brain to pain over time; it's a sensitization syndrome.

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