Opioids are used for the treatment of both acute and chronic pain with analgesia primarily obtained through µ-receptor activation. Morphine is the prototypical opioid in clinical use.
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Hellums, J. S., & Ross, E. L. (2017). Short-acting opioids. In Pain Medicine: An Essential Review (pp. 149–151). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43133-8_36
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