Pain is unpleasant sensation which is characterized by sharp or dull, this pain might also be brining or numbing or acute or chronic.
Yes , narcotics drugs are used in the treatment of pain but it’s mostly used when the pain is severe there are some advantages in using this drugs but even there are also some disadvantages, when this drugs are used in high doses they might affect breathing and in some cases very huge intake of drugs may even lead to person’s death due to improper breathing. Due to these narcotics drugs are usually advised to take orally which has less effect on breathing.
The most important thing that all must take care is that all the narcotics drugs should be taken under the supervision of any doctor.
Narcotics drugs are used for both acute and chronic pain. Acute pain persists for only sometime but chronic pain is pain which persists for a longer time.
Narcotics are classified into two main classes based on the release of the contents and lasting of the drug. They are immediate release, this has its effect lasting for several hours and the other one is sustained release this has its action for eight hours to three days. |