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Opioids are a group of medications used primarily for management of moderate to severe pain. These agents are available in a number of different doses and are able to be given by multiple routes of administration including oral, buccal, transdermal, intravenous, intramuscular, epidural, intrathecal, and rectal.
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Sarver, C. (2019). Opioids. In: Abd-Elsayed, A. (eds) Pain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99124-5_52
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