Opioids in Pain Control
Subtitle: Basic and Clinical Aspects
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 13, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780521622691
Subjects: Medical ethics; Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Oncology; Pain & pain management; therapeutic use; Opioids; Neuropsychopharmacology; Medical / Nursing; Psychiatry - Psychopharmacology; Medical; Pharmacology; Pain; Anesthesiology; Pain Medicine; Medical / Neurology; Analgesia; Narcotics
First sentence: Opiates, the prototype of which is morphine, are potent analgesic and addictive drugs that act through opioid receptors (Barnard, 1993; Browstein, 1993).