Opioid Drugs
This section is currently in preparation.
Links
The British Pain Society has produced an information booklet "Opioids for Persistent Pain: Information for Patients" which can be downloaded here.
While the use of opioids for chronic non-cancer pain is commoner nowadays than it was, it is not without resulting issues and problems. In this video presentation from the Pain Community Centre in Cardiff, our colleague Dr Cathy Stannard discusses these.
Further details is given in the Gloucestershire Joint Formulary website, and on this is a useful opioid equivalence chart.
Pain Service Website, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Webmaster Dr J G de Courcy, Consultant in Pain Medicine and Anaesthesia
email: pain.webmaster[at]glos.nhs.uk