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SUBMITTER: Anantharamu T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4544149 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul-Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Anantharamu Tejus T Sharma Sushil S Gupta Ajay Kumar AK Dahiya Navdeep N Singh Brashier Dick B DB Sharma Ashok Kumar AK
Journal of pharmacology & pharmacotherapeutics 20150701 3
Opioid-induced constipation (OIC) is one of the most troublesome and the most common effects of opioid use leading to deterioration in quality of life of the patients and also has potentially deleterious repercussions on adherence and compliance to opioid therapy. With the current guidelines advocating liberal use of opioids by physicians even for non-cancer chronic pain, the situation is further complicated as these individuals are not undergoing palliative care and hence there cannot be any ju ...[more]