PSYCH 089: Opioid Use and Related Disorders: From Neuroscience to Treatment
Medlock Holmes enters a city built around a remarkable hospital.
Within its walls, suffering is eased. Pain is softened. Patients who could not move begin to breathe, walk, sleep, and recover. The medicines used here are powerful, ancient, and deeply valuable.
Yet beyond the hospital gates, Holmes finds another city forming in the shadows.
At first, the same medicines offer warmth, relief, and escape. Then tolerance develops. The dose that once brought comfort no longer works. The body adapts. The mind learns. The streets begin to reorganise around a single need: obtain the opioid, avoid…
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