Product Description: This accessible, easy-to-read book provides readers with different perspectives on the subject of painkillers, examining their history, production, uses, and dangers.• Documents the risks of painkiller use and explores the various issues centered around the production, distribution, and regulation of painkiller medications• Examines painkillers from a variety of perspectives, including medical, historical, economic, and social• Includes primary source documents such as guidelines, policy documents, and study findings on the topics covered that provide readers with more in-depth information and help students hone their critical thinking and analytical skills• Examines the social dimensions of the use and abuse of painkiller drugs and considers the future of this particular type of drug...read more

Product Description: Collective knowledge of the origins and pharmacology of pain are evolving rapidly, providing increased hope for better pain management and a far greater quality of life for patients worldwide. However, there are few works dedicated to guiding primary care practitioners and clinical researchers through the use of adjuvant analgesics...read more

Product Description: Over the last several decades opioid treatment for chronic pain has become increasingly popular. From the sense that chronic pain had previously been undertreated, to drug companies anxious to sell new "designer" opioids, usage has increased several-fold...read more

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Product Description: A guide to prescription pain relievers, including the nature of abuse, side effects and dangers, and related social issues.

Product Description: In this volume, Gary E. Weir assesses the Navy's efforts between 1914 and 1940 to develop effective submarines. In particular, the author describes the work of the Navy and private industry that allowed the relatively primitive submersible of the First World War period to be replaced by the fleet submarine that fought in the Second World War...read more