Energy Balance and Opioid Receptors: Epsilons in the Periphery Promote Conservation; Kappa and Delta in the CNS Permit Expenditures
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Opium arrests life, anesthetises. Well being comes from a kind of death. Without opium I am cold I catch cold I do not feel hungry. I am impatient to impose what I invent When I smoke I am warm, I do not know what colds are, I am hungry. My impatience disappears." "Opium lead s the organism towards death in euphoric mood. The tortures arise from the process of returning to life against one's wish. A whole spring-time excites the veins to madness, bringing with it ice and fiery lava. Jean Cocteau Opium, The Diary of a Cure
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