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Behavioral monitoring in OUD Subjective withdrawal experience was measured by self-reports of alertness, anxiety, annoyance, loss of control, depression, distressful thoughts, happiness, mood, restlessness, concentration, desire to use an opiate, optimism, activeness, indifference, irritability, and pain that were scored from 0 for lowest to 10 for highest
Craving works alongside that distress, because the brain is trying to restore a state it now reads as normal
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Acknowledgements This work was financially supported by the National Science Foundation of China (Grant No