Polypharmacy treatment approaches to the psychiatric and somatic comorbidities found in patients with chronic pain.

Fishbain, David A · Am J Phys Med Rehabil · 2005

review · Level V

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Abstract

This review outlines the following: psychiatric and somatic comorbidities associated with chronic pain and their relationship to polypharmacy treatment, indications for polypharmacy in chronic pain, criteria for rational polypharmacy, basic principles of polypharmacy for pain-associated comorbidity, and, based on the above, psychopharmacologic polypharmacy treatment approaches to these chronic pain-associated comorbidities.

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