Principles of pain management -- Ethics of pain management -- Physiology and pathophysiology of pain -- Pain and stress -- Definitions of terms describing pain -- Recognition and evaluation of pain -- Pain behaviors -- Objective, categoric methods for assessing pain and analgesia -- Therapy for alleviation of pain -- Pharmacologic principles and pain: pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics -- Drugs used to treat pain -- Opioids -- Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs -- a2-agonists -- Local anesthetics -- Glucocorticoids -- Other drugs used to treat pain -- Local and regional anesthetic techniques for alleviation of perioperative pain -- Complementary and alternative (integrative) pain therapy -- Acute and chronic pain management -- Choosing and administering the right analgesic therapy -- Acute pain management: a case-based approach -- Chronic pain management: a case-based approach -- Drug antagonism and antagonists -- Cancer pain management -- Pain management in the horse.