Discussion forum.

Author(s): Eisenberg E

Affiliation(s): Pain Relief Unit, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 31096, Israel. e_eisenberg@rambam.health.gov.il

Publication date & source: 2007, J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother., 21(3):71-2.

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Queries from European physicians about analgesic pharmacotherapy and responses from the author are presented. The topics addressed are the safety of propoxyphene, the risk of opioid dependence in nonmalignant pain, the role of ziconotide in pain management, and titration of sustained acting opioids.