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Opioids are used for the treatment of both acute and chronic pain with analgesia primarily obtained through \( \mu \)-receptor activation. Morphine is the prototypical opioid in clinical use.
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Hellums, J.S., Ross, E.L. (2017). Short-Acting Opioids. In: Yong, R., Nguyen, M., Nelson, E., Urman, R. (eds) Pain Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43133-8_36
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