Tag Archives: Pain

14Dec/25

How To Get a Natural High

December 14, 2025HealthcareAnxiety, Endorphins, Laughter, Mood, Morphine, Neuropeptides, Opioid, Opioid peptides, oxytocin, Pain, Runner's high, Stress, Α-Endorphin, Β-Endorphinadmin

Dec. 14, 2025 /Mpelembe Media/ — A “natural high” from endorphins is a feeling of euphoria and reduced pain that the body produces in response to certain activities or stress. These effects are a result of the body’s natural pain-relieving chemicals (endogenous morphine) binding to opioid receptors in the brain. Continue reading →

04May/23

Tiredness of life: the growing phenomenon in western society

May 4, 2023HealthcareAmerican films, Assisted suicide, Atul Gawande, Creative Commons, Els van Wijngaarden, Feeling, Films, Helena Larsson, Japan, Netherlands, Pain, Philip Roth, Rise: Blood Hunter, Sam Carr, SHUTTERSTOCK, Suffering, Sweden, United Statesadmin

Sam Carr, University of Bath

Molly was 88 years old and in good health. She had outlived two husbands, her siblings, most of her friends and her only son.

“I don’t have any meaningful relationships left, dear,” she told me. “They’ve all died. And you know what? Underneath it all, I want to leave this world too.” Leaning a little closer, as though she was telling me a secret, she continued:

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06Nov/22

What long-term opioid use does to your body and brain

November 6, 2022HealthcareAnalgesic, Chandler Bing, Codeine, Creative Commons, Drugs, Euphoriants, Heroin, hydrocodone, Matthew Perry, Methadone, Morphinans, Morphine, Opioids, Pain, Psychoactive drugs, Rob Poole, RTT, testosterone, Tom Petty, Tomas, Walesadmin

Rob Poole, Bangor University

In his new autobiography, Matthew Perry reveals that his colon burst as a result of his addiction to opioid painkillers. The 53-year-old actor, who played Chandler Bing in Friends, was in a coma for two weeks following the incident and had to wear a colostomy bag for nine months.

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