title: A guide to safe use of pain medicine for consumers.
abstract: Editor's Note: The following bulletin was published by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and posted on its Consumer Health Information Web site at http://www.fda.gov/consumer/updates/painmeds022309.html on February 23, 2009. We present it here because it is important for clinicians to know what their patients are being told by other authoritative sources.
mesh_terms: D000700:Analgesics / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D054626:Consumer Health Information; D006801:Humans; D004366:Nonprescription Drugs / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014481:United States; D014486:United States Food and Drug Administration
chemical_list: D000700:Analgesics; D004366:Nonprescription Drugs