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Definition of Opioids
1. opioid [n] - See also: opioid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Opioids
Literary usage of Opioids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Management of Cancer Pain: Clinical Practice Guidelines by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"opioids opioids are the major class of analgesics used in the management of ...
opioids produce analgesia by binding to specific receptors both within and ..."
2. Problems of Drug Dependence: Proceedings of the 58th Annual Scientific Meeting by Louie S. Harrie (1999)
"The effects of opioids on the other CNS macroglial cell, the oligodendrocyte (OL),
... To determine whether OLs might respond to opioids during maturation, ..."
3. Acute Pain Management: Operative Or Medical Procedures and Trauma Clinical by Daniel B. Carr, Ada K. Jacox (1997)
"PCA does not necessarily protect against accumulation of opioids and respiratory
depression (Covington, Gonsalves-Ebrahim, Currie, Shepard, and Pippenger, ..."
4. Overview of Addiction Treatment Effectiveness by Mim J. Landry (1996)
"The prototype effect-altering medication is naltrexone (Trexan), which was
developed to block the effects of opioids. The efficacy of various medications in ..."
5. Preventing HIV Infection Among Injecting Drug Users in High Risk Countries by Institute of Medicine (U.S.), National Academies Press (U.S. (2007)
"The goal of maintenance treatment is to reduce illicit drug use and high-risk
behavior by building cross-tolerance to the effects of other opioids, ..."
6. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"We have hypothesized that some effects of nicotine are mediated through endogenous
opioids. This study was designed to demonstrate in rats that nicotine ..."
7. Drug Abuse and Drug Abuse Research (1991): The Third Triennial Report to edited by MaryLouise Embrey, Christine R. Hartel (1999)
"These observations suggest, however, that the endogenous opioids may have modulatory
effects in the normal physiology of the immune system. ..."
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