Generic name: Hydromorphone
Palladone is a medicine to prevent/treat moderate to severe pain when it is necessary to use long-tern, around the clock reliever of pain. The medicine is used only if you have already been taking other opioid medicines and are tolerant to them. The medicine is not used for short term or occasional use, it may not be the first narcotic medicine top treat pain.
It refers to narcotic (opioid) analgesics. It binds to receptors in the nervous system and the brain used by the body as natural relievers of pain.