Long-acting opioids for severe chronic daily headache

Headache Quarterly

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 135-139

  Robbins, Lawrence ^a,b  

^a RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Robbins Headache Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic daily headache; Methadone; Opioids; Oxycontin

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE DERIVATIVE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CLONIDINE; CODEINE; DEXTROMETHORPHAN; DIHYDROERGOTAMINE; DIHYDROERGOTAMINE MESILATE; FENTANYL; HYDROCODONE; HYDROCODONE BITARTRATE PLUS PARACETAMOL; HYDROXYZINE; METHADONE; METHYSERGIDE MALEATE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; MORPHINE SULFATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OXYCODONE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALPROATE SEMISODIUM;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NARCISSISM; OPIATE ADDICTION; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 0032782569     PISSN: 10597565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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