- Anon (1990) Elderly people, their medicines and their doctors. Drugs Therapeutics Bull 28: 77-79.
- Department of Health Statistical Bulletin, August 2000. Stationery Office, London.
- National Prescribing Center, Liverpool. The use of oral analgesics in Primary Care 11 (1) May MeRec Bulletin.
- British National Formular}' (September 2000). The Pharmaceutical Press, Wallingford. 40: 204.
- World Health Organization (1992) The International Classification of Diseases, 10'' revision (ICD-10). Mental and Behavioural Disorders. WHO, Geneva.
- Weissman DE, Haddox JD (1989) Opioid pseudoaddiclion-an iatrogenic syndrome. Pain 36: 363-6.
- Zenz M, Strumpf M, Tryba M (February 1992) Long-term oral opioid therapy in patients with chronic nonmalignant pain. J Pain Symptom Manage 7(2): 69-77
- WHO (1993) The ICD-I0 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders: Diagnostic Criteria for Research. Ch. 5. Geneva. World Medical Organisation.
A preliminary study of patients on repeat prescriptions of opioid and non-opioid analgesics
Reprints and Corporate Permissions
Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?
To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:
Academic Permissions
Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?
Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:
If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.
Related research
People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.
Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.
Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.