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Analgesic stepladder

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Pain may be optimally controlled by employing a step by step approach to drug therapy.

The analgesic stepladder consists of:

  • non-opioid analgesics as the bottom rung:
    • aspirin
    • paracetamol
    • NSAIDS

  • weak-opioids +/- non-opioid:
    • codeine

  • strong-opioid +/- non-opioid:
    • morphine

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