PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Mark W Weatherall
TI  - Drug therapy in headache
AID  - 10.7861/clinmedicine.15-3-273
DP  - 2015 Jun 01
TA  - Clinical Medicine
PG  - 273--279
VI  - 15
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/15/3/273.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/15/3/273.full
SO  - Clin Med2015 Jun 01; 15
AB  - All physicians will encounter patients with headaches. Primary headache disorders are common, and often disabling. This paper reviews the principles of drug therapy in headache in adults, focusing on the three commonest disorders presenting in both primary and secondary care: tension-type headache, migraine and cluster headache. The clinical evidence on the basis of which choices can be made between the currently available drug therapies for acute and preventive treatment of these disorders is presented, and information given on the options available for the emergency parenteral treatment of refractory migraine attacks and cluster headache.