[Pain perception among depressed heroin addict patients]

Investigation of heroin addict patients in post-abstinent state revealed that low mood, anxiety, tension and guilt feeling increased sensitivity toward pain, which mostly experienced as algetic, coenestetick and hypochondriacal sensations. Algetic symptoms highly correlated with psychopathology. Efficient treatment of psychopathological symptoms decreased pain. It is concluded that Atypical antipsychotic quetiapin monotherapy could be used for treating such conditions.