PCL475Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Chronic Pain, Opioid, Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug

• School: UTSG
• Department: Pharmacology and Toxicology
• Course: PCL475Y1
• Professor: Mac Burnham

Document Summary

Lecture 10: the search for better drugs (pain 5: nsaids and opioids in managing pain: Acute pain okay for some types. Not a specialty in neurology or psychiatry. It may or may not be treated well in dying people (hospice care can be very good) Morphine is the safest, most effective analgesic known for constant severe pain but it is also addictive for some people. Afraid of turning patients into addicts, doctors deliver amounts that are too small or spaced too widely to control pain. Frequently and in small doses so the patient is neither groggy or in pain it should be given before the pain is felt: do people get addicted to the opioids? (do they all experience euphoria?) Those who already have a history of psychological disturbance or substance abuse. The patients developed some tolerance to the drug initially then the doses held fairly stable for months.