High-Yield Psychopharmacology: Opioid Analgesics

Receptor functions of opioid agonists, mixed agonist-antagonists, and opioid antagonists; Drug interactions and pharmacokinetics and metabolism of opioid medications The clinical uses and possible side effects and toxicity of different classes of opiate-active medications Drugs discussed include full agonists, codeine, tramadol, propoxyphene, buprenorphine, nalbuphine, butorphanol, nelmefene, naloxone, naltrexone