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Opioid Induced Hyperalgesia. Walter Ling MD Integrated Substance Abuse Programs UCLA lwalter@ucla.edu APA annual meeting New York NY May 3, 2004. Opioid Induced Hyperalgesia. Hyperalgesia: Exaggerated response to noxious stimuli Allodynia: Normally innocuous stimuli produce pain.
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Opioid Induced Hyperalgesia Walter Ling MD Integrated Substance Abuse Programs UCLA lwalter@ucla.edu APA annual meeting New York NY May 3, 2004
Opioid Induced Hyperalgesia • Hyperalgesia: Exaggerated response to noxious stimuli • Allodynia: Normally innocuous stimuli produce pain
Hyperalgesia: Why Bother? • Common among patients • More patients taking opioids • Chronic pain &/or opioid addiction • Opioid prescription use and abuse • Universal to opioid use • Confuses clinical picture • Complicates pain management
Chronic Opioid Exposure • Tolerance • Dependence • Abstinence • Addiction • Hyperalgesia
Hyperalgesia • Opioid administration, in particular chronic administration, induced hyperalgesia & tolerance • Related but distinct from tolerance • Sensitization vs desensitization • Shared mechanism with chronic, neuropathic pain • Confusing pain assessment and management
Factors reducing opioid analgesia • Loss of opioid receptors • Disrupted synergy between supra-spinal and spinal opioid systems • Anti-opioid peptides • Non-opioid mechanisms (NMDA) • Tolerance • A beta-fiber-mediated allodynia • Opioid induced hyperalgesia
NMDA Receptor Activation from Persistent Pain & Opioid Administration: I • Ca+ + influx • PKC mediated phosphorylation • NMDA receptor • Mu opioid receptor • NO & superoxides • Dark neurons • Dynorphine A release • Release of nociceptive neurotransmitters • Glutamate, substance P, CGRP
NMDA Receptor Activation from Persistent Pain & Opioid Administration: II • Production of anti-opioids • Vasopressin, oxytocin, nociceptin, NPFF, CCK • Mu receptor desensitization • G protein coupled receptor kinases • arrestin, adrenergic receptor kinases • receptor agonists • / opioid receptor complexes
RESPONSE BY STIMULUS INTENSITY Hyperalgesia: methadone maintenance Hyperalgesia/ Allodynia Controls Pain Tolerance Response Pain Threshold Stimulus Intensity
Opponent Process Theory Opioid-induced hyperalgesia Pain tolerance Opioid-induced analgesia
OIH vs Pre-existing Pain • Increase in pain intensity with further opioid administration • Decrease in pain threshold/tolerance • Changing slope between threshold and tolerance ? • Diffused pain extending beyond distribution of pre-existing pain • Presence of allodynia?
Lots of Unknown • More research on hyperalgesia: • What opioids make a difference, if any? • Route and manner of administration matter? • How much and for how long? • Can we separate hyperalgesia from tolerance? • Can we prevent or reverse hyperalgesia? • NMDA receptor antagonists • NK1 antagonists • Opioids of different receptor mechanisms • Combining with ultra low dose antagonists
Morphia: Hyperalgesia & allodynia • If any man want to learn sympathetic charity, let him keep pain subdued for six months by morphia, and then make the experiment of giving up the drug. By this time he will have become irritable, nervous and cowardly. The nerves, muffled, so to speak, by narcotics, will have grown to be not less sensitive, butacutely, abnormally capable of feeling pain and of feeling as pain a multitude of things not usually competent to cause it.S.W. Mitchell
Overcoming OIH “Turning off” hyperalgesia • PKC inhibitors: gangliosides • NMDA Antagonists • NOS inhibitors • Calcium channel antagonists • Orphanin/FQ (nociceptin) receptor modulators • NK antagonists • Dynorphin modulators • Ultra-low dose antagonists
Overcoming Opioid Tolerance & Hyperalgesia: Promising Examples • NMDA receptor antagonists • Opioids with novel receptor mechanisms • Combining opioid agonists with ultra low dose antagonists • Morphine /naltrexone • Buprenorphine/ORL antagonist
Agonists acting on different receptor mechanisms: oxycodone & morphine antinocoception after selective mu antagonist naloxonazine administration
Clinical Implications • Analogy with TD? • Ultra-rapid detoxification?
Detoxification Detoxification is good for a lot of things; staying off drugs is not one of them.
Thanks to National Institute on Drug Abuse You the audience