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Headache in the Use and Withdrawal of Opiates and Other Associated Substances of Abuse
Author(s) -
Marinis M.,
Janiri L.,
Agnoli A.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1111/j.1526-4610.1991.hed3103159.x
Subject(s) - opiate , detoxification (alternative medicine) , migraine , medicine , addiction , headaches , incidence (geometry) , heroin , anesthesia , psychiatry , drug , alternative medicine , physics , receptor , pathology , optics
SYNOPSIS The incidence and character of headache were retrospectively studied in 40 opiate addicts and 40 control subjects. The relationships between headache and use and withdrawal of opiates or other associated substances of abuse were investigated. In the opiate‐dependent patients, the effects of opiate intake and withdrawal on headache were also investigated during detoxification treatment. A higher (p<0.001) incidence of headache was found in the opiate addicts (60%), particularly those with a longer history of addiction, than in the control subjects. A history of different types of headache (tension type headache, migraine‐like headaches), which seemed respectively to be associated with the use of certain types of heroin, cocaine intake, and opiate withdrawal, was reported by the addicts who suffered from headache. Out of the 24 patients who completed the detoxification therapy, a migraine‐like headache occurred in 37.5% of the subjects after opiate withdrawal.