Latalski Maciej, Skórzyńska Hanna, Pacian Anna
Department of Public Health, Medical University of Lublin.
Ann Univ Mariae Curie Sklodowska Med. 2002;57(1):407-12.
The goal of this paper is to evaluate the consumption of painkillers among patients on the basis of the opinions of general practitioners. The most frequent ailments including pain symptoms were the cases of long-continued pain (64.3%); less frequent were acute pain syndromes in the course of a disease (35.7%). The phenomenon of the excessive use of painkillers among patients with long-continued pain syndromes is observed by the GPs. Uncontrolled self-treatment is possible owing to an easy access to this type of medicaments. The excessive use of analgesic medicines in therapy frequently results from the lack of simultaneous application of other methods of pain treatment e.g., in physiotherapy, psychotherapy. Long lasting use of various types of painkillers can lead to drug addiction. This problem is observed by over a half of the GPs (67.1%).
本文的目的是根据全科医生的意见评估患者使用止痛药的情况。包括疼痛症状在内最常见的疾病是持续性疼痛病例（64.3%）；疾病过程中的急性疼痛综合征较少见（35.7%）。全科医生观察到持续性疼痛综合征患者中存在过度使用止痛药的现象。由于这类药物容易获得，可能会出现无节制的自我治疗。治疗中止痛药的过度使用往往是由于缺乏同时应用其他疼痛治疗方法，如物理治疗、心理治疗。长期使用各种类型的止痛药会导致药物成瘾。超过一半的全科医生（67.1%）观察到了这个问题。
