Central sensitization complicates chronic pain treatment, opioid use disorder

Central sensitization may be an important underlying factor that complicates the treatment of chronic pain and opioid use disorders, researchers wrote in PAIN Reports.
Orman Trent Hall, DO, an osteopathic physician and addiction psychiatrist at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center, and colleagues recruited participants with opioid use disorders (OUD) from an academic addiction treatment center in Columbus, Ohio, to assess the relationship between OUD and chronic pain.
“It’s important to me to search for new ways to help,” Hall said in a release from the

Central sensitization may be an important underlying factor that complicates the treatment of chronic pain and opioid use disorders, researchers wrote in PAIN Reports.
Orman Trent Hall, DO, an osteopathic physician and addiction psychiatrist at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center, and colleagues recruited participants with opioid use disorders (OUD) from an academic addiction treatment center in Columbus, Ohio, to assess the relationship between OUD and chronic pain.
“It’s important to me to search for new ways to help,” Hall said in a release from the