{"title":"Tapentadol: a novel analgesic for treating moderate to severe pain","authors":"Anthony Dickenson","doi":"10.1002/fps.68","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Pain management in primary care relies on a combination of pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatments. Opioid analgesics are widely employed but long-term use can lead to side-effects and issues including drug tolerance. In this article, Anthony Dickenson considers tapentadol, the first in a new class of centrally acting analgesics with two mechanisms of action in a single molecule and the promise of fewer sideeffects than pure opioid agonists.</b></p>","PeriodicalId":100566,"journal":{"name":"Future Prescriber","volume":"11 3","pages":"6-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/fps.68","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Future Prescriber","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fps.68","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Pain management in primary care relies on a combination of pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatments. Opioid analgesics are widely employed but long-term use can lead to side-effects and issues including drug tolerance. In this article, Anthony Dickenson considers tapentadol, the first in a new class of centrally acting analgesics with two mechanisms of action in a single molecule and the promise of fewer sideeffects than pure opioid agonists.