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Chronic opioid exposure can lead to opioid tolerance or opioid-induced hyperalgesia. They are two distinct phenomena that make pain difficult to control. Clinical differentiation between opioid tolerence and opioid-induced hyperalgesia can be challanging.
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Elmofty, D.H. (2017). How Do You Determine If a Patient has Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia?. In: Scher, C., Clebone, A., Miller, S., Roccaforte, J., Capan, L. (eds) You’re Wrong, I’m Right. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43169-7_105
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