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Time course of popularity index for major classes of drugs used for the treatment of chronic pain. The popularity index represents the share (percentage) of articles on a specific class of drugs relative to all articles in the field of chronic pain during a 5-year period. The inset shows the 5-year rate of growth in the actual number of articles.
Abbreviation: NSAIDs, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
