Opioids Journal Article
| Author: | Foley, K. M. |
| Article Title: | Opioids |
| Abstract: | The major clinical uses for opioids are to control pain, suppress cough, and to treat diarrhea. These drugs, however, have the potential for abuse. It is postulated that the significant mood-altering effects of opioids combined with their pharmacology, in which tolerance and physical and psychological dependence occur, account for their abuse liability. A classification of the groups of patients that commonly present with complications of opioid use is reviewed briefly before discussing the clinical pharmacology of the opioids and their acute and toxic effects. |
| Keywords: | review; diarrhea; unindexed drug; opiate; withdrawal syndrome; coughing; pethidine; severity of illness index; phenobarbital; infant, newborn; seizure; chronic pain; methadone; morphine; respiration depression; opioid-related disorders; hydromorphone; clonazepam; drug tolerance; intravenous drug administration; naloxone; fentanyl; opiate receptor; diamorphine; naltrexone; levorphanol; oxycodone; opiate addiction; oral drug administration; drug overdose; clonidine; codeine; oxymorphone; opiate antagonist; pentazocine; buprenorphine; dextropropoxyphene; nalbuphine; heroin dependence; diazepam; drug abuse pattern; narcotic dependence; sufentanil; subcutaneous drug administration; opiate agonist; narcotics; butorphanol; intranasal drug administration; 1,2,3,6 tetrahydro 1 methyl 4 phenylpyridine; alfentanil; human; substance withdrawal syndrome; sublingual drug administration; fentanyl derivative; designer drug; paregoric; myoclonus seizure; neonatal abstinence syndrome |
| Journal Title: | Neurologic Clinics |
| Volume: | 11 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| ISSN: | 0733-8619 |
| Publisher: | W.B. Saunders Co-Elsevier Inc. |
| Date Published: | 1993-08-01 |
| Start Page: | 503 |
| End Page: | 522 |
| Language: | English |
| PUBMED: | 8377740 |
| PROVIDER: | scopus |
| DOI: | 10.1016/S0733-8619(18)30135-X |
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| Notes: | Review -- Export Date: 1 March 2019 -- Source: Scopus |
