RT Journal A1 Hampton T T1 QUick hit of opioids JF JAMA JO JAMA YR 2012 FD March 7 VO 307 IS 9 SP 904 OP 904 DO 10.1001/jama.2012.223 UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.223 AB By stimulating pain fibers in rats that received anesthesia (but whose spinal cord signals were preserved), investigators at the Medical University of Vienna in Austria found that high doses of opioids over the course of an hour deleted the spinal cord's memory trace of the pain signal.