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low dose naltrexone plus opiate therapy improves neuropathic pain

Methadone use in men is associated with significant reduction in serum Total Testosterone levels in men.  In women, just the opposite is true, though this did not reach statistical significance.  The higher the dose of methadone in men, the lower the Testosterone.  The link between opiates and low T in men is very strong.  This is the first that I am aware of that points to the opposite effect in women.

Opiates and prescription meds are a common cause of low T in men.  In this study with men with metabolic dysfunction and opiate induced low T, Testosterone therapy did not worsen inflammatory/metabolic markers.  Of note, this study did not find improvement in the metabolic and inflammatory markers as other studies have shown.

Good review of meds for nausea.

vitamin C reduces pain; mechanism of action likely anti-inflammatory antioxidant, but yet inconclusive.

only abstract available here to general public.  Opiates suprress the immune system.  This is an important point in the fight against cancer. Cancer is, in part, the result of signficant immune imbalance.  In this study of patients with Renal Cell Cancer, melatonin + IL-2 was found to counter this immunosuppressive effect of morphine to increase partial response and to increase the 3 year survival.

Opiates are outright immunosuppressive.