New Trends in Pain Pharmacotherapy

Abstract

With the accumulation of clinical experience and research evidence, pharmacotherapy is one of the important and reliable options for the management of pain conditions including acute, chronic and cancer pain. Belief, pharmacology, and technology in pain medicines are being evoluted. An ideal analgesic should pose the properties of offering excellent pain relief, having no side effects and being safe, which results in good patient’s satisfaction. It is desirable using pain medications meeting all the criteria for being ideal. Unfortunately, there is no new pain medications with all such ideal features introduced in last decade. Instead, old pain medications are being re-evaluated for new indications, better pain relief and improved tolerability. Techniques of pharmacotherapy such as multimodal analgesia, preventive analgesia and ways of administration are other areas being actively investigated in order to achieve these goals. Belief and new trends in pharmacotherapy will be highlighted and discussed.