Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Articulate bioethicist experience with opioid withdrawal

Bioethicist withdrawal story

Health Affairs companion article.

The Cartesian mind-body dualism is surprising.
Some lack of insight about how the constructs of "psychological" dependence dovetail with "biological dependence," and the distinction has been abandoned in research for lack of utility.
But some value must reside in the dualism since it lives on.

People vary considerably in the experience of opioid withdrawal.
Many have brushed it off as a relatively trivial experience (but for gut problems).
His experience was more extreme, at the other end of the distribution.

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