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Pharm Week 3
Drugs for Pain, anesthesia, fever, muscle spasms
Question | Answer |
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What are medications used to relieve pain called? | Analgesics |
Opioids are what kind of substances, meaning that they produce numbness or stupor-like symptoms? | Narcotic |
An opioid agonists is what? | That stimulate a particular opioid receptor |
An opioid antagonist is what? | Those that block an opioid receptor |
An opioid agonists, such as morphhine, activate what? | Both Mu and kappa receptors |
Opioid blockers such as Naloxone (Narcan) inhibits what? | both the mu and kappa receptors |