# Can Ziconotide Be Used to Replace Opioids? Exploratory Clinical Experience in 5 Patients Treated in the Pain Unit.

> PubMed lists PMID 40985013 in Journal of pain research as Journal Article, with publication-date metadata of 2025-09-17 (day precision). PeptideScanner associated the retained record with the identity slug ziconotide. These fields reproduce attributed bibliographic metadata and do not summarize or endorse the article's findings.

- Evidence object: `story:pubmed-pmid-40985013-ziconotide:v1`
- Evidence domain: Literature metadata
- Date in source: 2025-09-25
- Source checked: 2026-07-30
- Published by PeptideScanner: 2026-08-14
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- JSON record: https://peptidescanner.com/evidence/v1/objects/pubmed-pmid-40985013-ziconotide-v1.json
- Content SHA-256: `6a66afc8750cc78e6a6d892a1c95cb89d10b9dccf87bcaa1b7aca940da39683e`

## Claims and source pins

### Headline

Can Ziconotide Be Used to Replace Opioids? Exploratory Clinical Experience in 5 Patients Treated in the Pain Unit. ([`pubmed-observation-pmid-40985013-2025-09-25-dbd75782d87e`](#source-pubmed-observation-pmid-40985013-2025-09-25-dbd75782d87e))

### Summary

PubMed lists PMID 40985013 in Journal of pain research as Journal Article, with publication-date metadata of 2025-09-17 (day precision). PeptideScanner associated the retained record with the identity slug ziconotide. These fields reproduce attributed bibliographic metadata and do not summarize or endorse the article's findings. ([`pubmed-observation-pmid-40985013-2025-09-25-dbd75782d87e`](#source-pubmed-observation-pmid-40985013-2025-09-25-dbd75782d87e))

### Paragraph 1

PubMed lists PMID 40985013 in Journal of pain research as Journal Article, with publication-date metadata of 2025-09-17 (day precision). PeptideScanner associated the retained record with the identity slug ziconotide. These fields reproduce attributed bibliographic metadata and do not summarize or endorse the article's findings. ([`pubmed-observation-pmid-40985013-2025-09-25-dbd75782d87e`](#source-pubmed-observation-pmid-40985013-2025-09-25-dbd75782d87e))

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## Sources

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- **Can Ziconotide Be Used to Replace Opioids? Exploratory Clinical Experience in 5 Patients Treated in the Pain Unit. · retained source version 1:2025-09-25:current:dbd75782d87eb01550b003eaf45c11a038940533f0e6df82f7a6eb2359cb7ee2** — PubMed; class A. [Open source](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40985013/) (`pubmed-observation-pmid-40985013-2025-09-25-dbd75782d87e`)

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## Suggested citation

PeptideScanner. "Can Ziconotide Be Used to Replace Opioids? Exploratory Clinical Experience in 5 Patients Treated in the Pain Unit." Version 1, published 2026-08-14. https://peptidescanner.com/evidence/v1/objects/pubmed-pmid-40985013-ziconotide-v1.json SHA-256: 6a66afc8750cc78e6a6d892a1c95cb89d10b9dccf87bcaa1b7aca940da39683e.