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    Pain Medications for Palliative Care

    April 23, 2017 /

    If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, one of the first things you may wonder about is pain. How much pain are you likely to be in? How will you cope with it? What can your doctors do about it? The good news is that there is a lot that you and your doctors can do to keep pain at bay. You have multiple options, one of which is medication. When it comes to medications for pain management, there are two broad categories: opioids, which dull pain systemically, throughout the body; and adjuvant analgesics, or helper medications that can target specific types of pain, often by fighting…

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