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I wonder if opiates (or other painkillers) have the same effect. Most of the opiate drugs, such as hydrocodone, are mixed up with acetaminophen anyway in pill
by cbanek 9y ago
I wonder if opiates (or other painkillers) have the same effect. Most of the opiate drugs, such as hydrocodone, are mixed up with acetaminophen anyway in pill form. For example, a norco 5/325 is 5 mg of hydrocodone and 325 mg of acetaminophen.
- vilhelm_s 9y agoI googled and found this article, which suggests they would. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/09/dulling-pain-may-also-reduce-empathy http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/09/dulling-pain-may-also... Apparently, in this experiment they did not use actual opioid drugs but instead used a placebo protocol (to avoid side effects), but they did produce the empathy reduction effect. And this effect was cancelled out by giving the test subjects naltrexone, so it does seem to be dependent on the opioid receptors.