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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 24.
Published in final edited form as: Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2008 Aug 23;201(3):373–382. doi: 10.1007/s00213-008-1293-6

Table 1.

Behavioral signs used to score μ-opioid withdrawal

Behavioral signs
Body tremor: shaking or trembling
Twitch: sudden movement
Wet-dog shake: movement of head very rapidly from side to side
Lying down in cage
Scratching
Grimace
Unusual tongue movement: tongue rolled inside mouth from cheek to cheek
Protrusion of tongue
Salivation
Vocalization
Yawning
Eye-closing
Emesis