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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2006
Applicant:
Maree T. Smith, Bardon, AU;
Inventor:
Maree T. Smith, Bardon, AU;
Assignee:
QRxPharma Limited, North Sydney, AU;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 31/485 (2006.01); A61K 31/445 (2006.01); A61K 9/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to methods for reducing the risk associated with the administration of opioid analgesics in patients diagnosed or undiagnosed with respiratory illness by administering an analgesic composition comprising a sub-analgesic dosage of a p-opioid agonist selected from the group consisting of morphine, fentanyl, sufentanil, alfentanil, oxymorphone and hydromorphone, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a sub-analgesic dosage of oxycodone which is a κ-opioid agonist or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.