Pharmacology of opioids

Inturrisi CE. Clinical pharmacology of opioids for pain. ClinJ Pain. 2002 18(suppl 4) S3-S13. 

Miotto K, Magendzo K, Evans CJ. In Tseong LF, ed. The Pharmacology of Opioid Peptides. New Jersey Harwood, 1995 57-71. 

Law PY. In The Pharmacology of Opioid Peptides. Chur Harwood Academic Publishers, 1995 109-130. 

C. Stein, Ed., Opioids in Pain Control Basic and Clincial Aspects, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999. This book contains several chapters discussing the clinical use of opioids in different types of pain and clinical settings in addition to chapters discussing the pharmacology of opioids. 

Nock B (1995) In Tseng LF (ed) The pharmacology of opioid peptides. Harwood Academic Publishers, Singapore, pp 29-56... 

As part of the Topics in Current Chemistry series, this volume, entitled Chemistry of Opioids, presents the progress made in opioid research over the past 5 years in the synthesis and pharmacology of opioids. 

Figure 7.3 Pharmacology of opioid substitute therapy. Methadone is a relatively long-acting full agonist and buprenorphine a long-acting partial agonist and their use avoids the highs alternating with lows associated with heroin.

Martin TJ, Eisenach JC. Pharmacology of opioid and nonopioid analgesics in chronic pain states. / Pharmacol Exp 77/er 2001 299 811-817. 

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