Episodes of discomfort interspersed with pain-free periods.
What is recurrent pain?
Substance made from the opium poppy?
What is opium?
What is released when a drugs enter a brain’s reward pathway.
What is dopamine?
The neuron’s life support center.
What is the soma/cell body?
Pain ad pressure in the organs.
A cheaper version of opioids that will help the addicted person to stop using heroin.
What is methadone?
A condition occurring when a person’s body becomes unable to function normally without a particular drug.
What is physical dependence?
Houses the neuron’s genetic information.
What is the nucleus?
What is chronic pain?
Narcotic drug serviced from optimum that is extremely addictive.
What is heroin?
When more and more of the drug is needed to achieve the same effect.
What is drug tolerance?
Receives messages from other cells.
What is the dendrites?
Pain sensations in the skin, muscles, tendons, and joints.
What is somatic pain?
Narcotic drug derived from opium that is used to treat severe pain.
What is morphine?
Physical symptoms that result from a lack of an addictive drug.
What is withdrawal?
Forms junctions with other cells and houses the neurotransmitters.
What is the terminal branches/buttons/axon terminals?
Sharp, stinking pain that is short-lived.
Name one of four listed types of opioids?
When the brain releases dopamine people experience intense ___.
What is pleasure?
Passes messages away from the cell body to other neurons, muscles, or glands.
What is the axon?