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What are some opioid analgesics that can be used as anti-diarrheal?
loperamidediphenoxylate
What is the purpose of opioid analgesics?
Opioid analgesics are used to relieve pain from a variety of conditions. Some are used before or during surgery (including dental surgery) both to relieve pain and to make anesthetics work more effectively.
How do opioid analgesics interact with alcohol?
Opioid analgesics increase the effects of alcohol. Anyone taking these drugs should not drink alcoholic beverages
What is the effect of opioid analgesics and alcohol?
Opioid analgesics increase the effects of alcohol. Anyone taking these drugs should not drink alcoholic beverages.
What is the recommended dosage of Opioid analgesics?
Recommended doses vary, depending on the type of opioid analgesic and the form in which it is being used. Doses may be different for different patients
Who are especially sensitive to opioid analgesics?
Children and older people are especially sensitive to opioid analgesics and may have serious breathing problems after taking them. Children may also become unusually restless or agitated
What is the Pharmacology of analgesics?
Compounds that alleviate pain without loss of consciousness. Analgesics act by various mechanisms including binding with opioid receptors and decreasing inflammation. Choice of analgesic may be determined by the type of pain. These compounds include opioid, non-opioid and adjuvant analgesic agents.
A drug to reduce or relieve pain is called?
Medications that relieve pain are called opioid analgesics.
How are Opioid analgesics administered after surgery?
it is common practice to give narcotic analgesics by intravenous injection for the first 24-48 hours. This may be followed by oral narcotics for the next 24-48 hours, and then non-narcotic analgesics.
What are Opioid analgesics used for?
to relieve pain from a variety of conditions. Some are used before or during surgery (including dental surgery), both to relieve pain and to make anesthetics work more effectively
Is hydrocodone an opitate?
The terms opiate and opioid have similar, yet slightly different, meanings. Properly, opiates are only narcotic analgesics derived from the opium poppy (codeine and morphine). Opioids are narcotic analgesics that have similar activity to opiates (heroin, oxycodone, fentanyl, methadone, etc.) Thus, hydrocodone is an opioid, not an opiate. However, these words are increasingly being used interchangeably, and some would now consider them to be synonymous.
How is Oxymorphone related to herion?
They're both opioid analgesics. And both have the have the potential to cause abuse due to their ability to cause physical dependancy
