Methadone use in a small series of selected patients with chronic nonmalignant pain

Pain Digest

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-6

  Green, Jacob ^a   Hickey, Stephen ^a   Ansbacher, Susan ^a   Kartsonis, Philip ^a  

^a Southeastern Neuroscience Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHADONE; OPIATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCRIPTION;

EID: 0030060561     PISSN: 09389016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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