How do researchers tell legal morphine from illegal morphine if all that excreta mixes together?
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Heroin was first derived to treat morphine addiction, or "narcomania"; now it's illegal, and morphine prescribed.
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"Morphinomanes (The Morphine Addicts)" (1887) depicts two women smoking morphine — then a fad among society ladies.
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You have one that's much more potent than morphine and one that's significantly less potent than morphine.
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Some individuals may convert codeine to a lot of morphine, while others may convert codeine to much less morphine.
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According to the guidelines, emergency physicians should avoid injecting migraine patients with morphine or morphine-like drugs, known as opioids.
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In one example, it was easier to get morphine than buprenorphine, even though morphine is far more addictive and deadly.
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The first received a solution containing morphine and sugar, which was gradually reduced until the ants were receiving pure morphine.
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In 2011, during a morphine shortage, two fatalities were linked to the accidental dosing of hydromorphone as if it were morphine.
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At the time, heroin is believed to be less habit-forming than morphine, so it is dispensed to individuals who are addicted to morphine.
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Prescriptions are measured by morphine milligram equivalents, which uses morphine as a baseline to measure the equivalent prescribed opioid, which may be more powerful.
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Some others have started producing their own morphine, or importing morphine powder which is less controlled and can be whizzed into orally administered syrup.
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As for heroin: the opiate is a close enough relative of morphine that if it's left out for too long, it can actually turn into morphine.
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Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 323 to 100 times more potent than morphine; carfentanil is estimated to be 10,000 times more potent than morphine.
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"People hate morphine because they think, 'As soon as the doctor injected morphine, my father died,'" neurosurgeon Dr. Fumikazu Takeda told the New York Times in 2007.
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Autry, who acknowledged his addiction to methamphetamine and morphine, testified that on the day Bobo disappeared, he'd called his friend Zachary Adams to buy a morphine pill.
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Autry, who acknowledged his addiction to methamphetamine and morphine, testified that on the day Bobo disappeared, he'd called his friend Zach Adams to buy a morphine pill.
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But the difference in potency is significant: Fentanyl is up to 100 times more powerful than morphine, but carfentanil is up to 10,000 times more powerful than morphine.
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Their new low-morphine poppy seeds promise to keep residual morphine levels below 20 parts per million—far below the 900 parts per million found in traditional poppy seeds.
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The WHO guidelines prescribe strict safeguards for the administration of addictive substances such as morphine but say that oral morphine is "essential treatment for moderate to severe cancer pain".
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She finally requested – and received – morphine for him.
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Early 1900s: Morphine and the creation of pain management Civil War veterans whose injuries were treated with morphine were among those hooked on opioids at the turn of the century.
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By contrast, half of Hispanic women received no more than 24 morphine milligram equivalents a day, and half of black women received no more than 22019 morphine milligram equivalents a day.
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"Approximately 1-2% of people are 'ultra-metabolizers' who convert codeine to morphine extremely quickly, causing a rapid spike in blood morphine levels and a resulting risk of overdose," he added.
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Tate said she and Erkes reluctantly settled on extended-release morphine, a drug that UnitedHealthcare approved without any prior authorization, even though morphine is considered more addictive than the Butrans patch.
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That morphine is some powerful shit , my mother says.
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This particular song, "Morphine," is all about this man who went and fought in the war (just "the war," you don't know which war it is) and he got addicted to morphine.
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Dr. Tate said she and Ms. Erkes reluctantly settled on extended-release morphine, a drug that UnitedHealthcare approved without any prior authorization, even though morphine is considered more addictive than the Butrans patch.
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PAVLICH: Just take his morphine away for a few hours.
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The drug is about 100 times more powerful than morphine.
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Prescription opioids include painkillers such as morphine, oxycodone and hydrocodone.
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The baby tested positive for heroin and morphine, authorities said.
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But the doctors don't have enough morphine to give her.
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The oncologist later stated that someone had given him morphine.
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Browne even says he became addicted to pills and morphine.
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His second wife, Miriam Noel, was a hopeless morphine addict.
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She injects him with morphine, then herself for good measure.
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Ants, like people and rats, can become addicted to morphine.
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Opana ER is more potent than either oxycodone or morphine.
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Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid much more powerful than morphine.
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Details: Shortages of pain medications like morphine are especially severe.
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At one point, she attempted suicide with a morphine overdose.
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It contains fentanyl, an opioid 100 times stronger than morphine.
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Subsys is up to 100 times more potent than morphine.
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Elliot switched from Morphine to Adderall, and he's loving life.
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Palliative morphine was particularly challenging for a former drug addict.
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Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid significantly more potent than morphine.
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After a difficult delivery with Edmund, Mary was prescribed morphine.
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They jacked me up with morphine and sent me home.
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Even Chanel had picked up a morphine habit by 1935.
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They talked about the morphine she was using for pain.
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My patient's nurse increased the dose of his morphine drip.
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Distilling enough morphine to inject would require boiling away gallons.
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Before dawn, a nurse came in to give her morphine.
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The drug is up to 100 times more powerful than morphine.
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Appropriately, they put me on an IV of Pepcid and morphine.
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Opioids are often prescribed painkillers, such as morphine, oxycodone and hydrocodone.
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Cartoons and morphine, he says, are helping him through the pain.
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He wrote that she was given morphine, but that didn't help.
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Elliot, Rami Malek's Mr. Robot hacker hero, is addicted to morphine.
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In morphine, mice built up a tolerance after just five days.
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They have treated 27,000 patients successfully, 25,000 of them with morphine.
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Now, excuse me, I've got a Morphine boxset to get through.
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Morphine can be deadly if it's consumed unwittingly, the FDA said.
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Fentanyl is an especially potent opioid, 100 times stronger than morphine.
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"The doctors weaned him off with droplets of morphine," he said.
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It's converted by the liver into morphine that can ease pain.
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Unlike morphine or heroin, no poppies are required for its manufacture.
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He was on morphine for two solid weeks in the hospital.
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After the nurse left, my father's pain broke through the morphine.
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The star also tested positive for morphine, his lawyer told PEOPLE.
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Then, desperate to keep drawing, she refused Elizabeth's offer of morphine.
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It's okay to give them painkillers or morphine or whatever, fentanyl.
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Common prescription opioids include Vicodin, OxyContin, Percocet, morphine, codeine and fentanyl.
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There was no morphine available to ease her suffering and pain.
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Other states use pentobarbital, or a morphine derivative along with midazolam.
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Until last summer, she said, she abused Vicodin and morphine relentlessly.
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Some contain morphine, the strongest of the opioid family of drugs.
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Milan Marathon winner Lucy Kabuu tested positive for morphine earlier this month.
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Its main ingredient, fentanyl, is an opioid 100 times stronger than morphine.
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In the case of morphine, it leads to some 30,000 deaths annually.
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In Pennsylvania, the average was slightly under 3,000 milligrams of morphine equivalent.
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There were no bandages, ointments, stitches, or morphine to ease the pain.
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It had the consistency of a milkshake and the effect of morphine.
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Moments like withdrawing from morphine, or fighting back against his IRL tormentors.
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A version of fentanyl, this drug is 10,000 times stronger than morphine.
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So, naturally, Malek had to snort a lot of morphine on camera.
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The former Howard Stern sidekick recently tested positive for cocaine and morphine.
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For her pain, Meg was given morphine, which made her throw up.
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In this experiment, the rats consumed significantly less morphine and never died.
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The 20113 change affects drugs including morphine, hydromorphone, oxycodone, hydrocodone, and fentanyl.
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Only one catheter with morphine in the bend of her arm remained.
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In 1890, her youngest daughter, Georgiana, a morphine addict, died at 47.
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Fentanyl is a man-made opioid 100 times more powerful than morphine.
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Fentanyl is a prescription painkiller that's about twice as potent as morphine.
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Figures show India uses 320 kg (705 lbs) of morphine a year.
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So it was up to me—how much morphine to give him?
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Morphine made her relax and breathe easier, but it was too late.
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The country imports legal morphine in large quantities and exports illegal heroin.
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The culprit back then was morphine, a compound isolated from poppy sap.
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It is up to 100 times more powerful than morphine, and just .
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Eventually, though, legislators stepped in with regulations on morphine and other products.
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Then, over two to 223 weeks, the infant is weaned off morphine.
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Maybe Keanu's voice will sound even thicker and yet more morphine-garbled!
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Reforming Mongolia's approach to morphine was an early priority of Odontuya's campaign.
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"When we say that fentanyl is 100 times more toxic as morphine, what we're saying is that a pound of fentanyl is the same as 100 pounds of morphine or 50 pounds of heroin," Virani said in DOPESICK.
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The overdose risk was nearly 8 times greater when a family member was prescribed 50 to 90 morphine milligram equivalents a day; it was more than 15 times higher at doses above 90 morphine milligram equivalents per day.
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Morphine and methadone are strong agonists, which makes them more powerful and addictive.
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Krokodil, heroin, morphine, and amphetamines—you can find anything you want in Troeschina.
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Shockingly, that's more than the opioid morphine, which reduces physical pain by 22%.
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In 2002 one in six users took a pill more powerful than morphine.
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He invented Coca-Cola as a way to break his morphine addiction. See?
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The ME could not determine if the morphine was related to heroin use.
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Carfentanil is the most potent opioid used commercially, 10,000 times stronger than morphine.
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The initial collusion story, Russia and Trump, really is the media&aposs morphine.
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The drug is reportedly 80 times stronger than morphine, the Arizona Republic reported.
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The first is its adoption of oral morphine, a cheap and effective painkiller.
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Officials see morphine as a useful painkiller rather than a shameful recreational drug.
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Many doctors are reluctant to prescribe cannabis rather than traditional opiates, like morphine.
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"It's 50 to 100 times more potent than heroin or morphine," he argues.
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Flushable medications include Oxycontin and many painkillers that use fentanyl, methadone and morphine.
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Zilberstein sampled ten pages of Bulgakov's notes and found morphine on every one.
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It is 20173,000 times as potent as morphine and used to tranquilize elephants.
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Then the researchers offered all three groups the choice of sugar or morphine.
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But about two-thirds of the ants given morphine chose it over sugar.
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The painkiller carfentanil, a version of fentanyl, is 2349,20123 times stronger than morphine.
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When my mother came in, he pressed the button on his morphine drip.
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I was hoping for great things from morphine and it was so disappointing.
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These are the same centers that go bonkers over tobacco, cocaine, and morphine.
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Doctors, now more mindful of the addictive properties of both, used morphine sparingly.
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The problem is particularly acute for older drugs, such as penicillin or morphine.
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Medicinal morphine consumption in India fell by 97 percent between 1985 and 1997.
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He's on a steady diet of morphine, and he can't reduce his dose.
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"Morphine becomes a biological need just as water," William Burroughs wrote in 103.
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"I was flying on morphine, so it was sort of funny," she said.
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CB stopped taking morphine for five days, and then her pain did return.
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Still, the police believe the hospital's morphine was used to poison the babies.
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Lenny Bruce didn't die until 1966 due to a tragic accidental morphine overdose.
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Here, liquid morphine is produced by a private charity overseen by the government.
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"The only treatment I had was morphine to calm the terrible pain," she says.
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Some research has found the drug to be chemically similar to opioids like morphine.
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They had me on morphine, they had me on oxycontin, so many pain pills.
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She thought it strange to treat the neonatal withdrawal solely with morphine or methadone.
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According to physicians and experts, Subsys is about 47.53 times more powerful than morphine.
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Here's the thing about tramadol — unlike heroin or morphine, it's not eye-wateringly powerful.
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Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that can be 100 times more powerful than morphine.
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Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is about 100 times more potent than morphine.
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The second reason for Uganda's success is that nurses are allowed to prescribe morphine.
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When he showed up yesterday for court he tested positive of cocaine and morphine.
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Illicit fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, can be 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine.
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Dizziness, nausea and vomiting were more often associated with oxycodone than morphine, for example.
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Fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin, up to 100 times stronger than morphine.
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The coroner says Moore's blood tested positive for cocaine, morphine, codeine, methamphetamines and ecstasy.
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In his case, morphine was used to control the pain associated with the disease.
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We used to have a morphine problem and then we had a heroin problem.
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Few opioids are patented; a monthly dose of morphine should cost just $2-5.
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Fentanyl is a man-made opioid that is 100 times more powerful than morphine.
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The alkaloids naturally occurring in Kratom are not classic opioids like morphine or heroin.
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To keep the physical pain in check, I take morphine pills twice a day.
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The drugs, including oxycodone, hydrocodone, and morphine, are among the most commonly prescribed painkillers.
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The drugs, including oxycodone, hydrocodone, and morphine, are among the most commonly prescribed drugs.
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Injections of morphine were used sparingly, after surgery and for patients injured in accidents.
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By the third day, Sergeant Rose was all but out of morphine and bandages.
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How much is the right amount, I wonder, a morphine bottle in my hand.
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I picked up my last dose of morphine [from the pharmacy] on December 24.
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In the same time period, morphine consumption Tanzania only doubled to 22010 mg person.
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A generic 21mg immediate-release morphine sulfate tablet costs roughly US$0.01 to produce.
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It is 50 times stronger than heroin and 22014 times more powerful than morphine.
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It is 22016 times stronger than heroin and 2800 times more powerful than morphine.
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The first season included evocative sequences like Elliot's dark and woozy morphine withdrawal fantasy.
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As the morphine-addled matriarch, Mary, Corinna Kirchhoff is the production's one weak link.
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This is how morphine is made in the opium poppy, and mescaline in cactuses.
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He'd been hit in the buttocks, and Geier gave him a shot of morphine.
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For the opioid group, the first step was immediate-release morphine, oxycodone or hydrocodone.
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The prescriptions allegedly included more than 100,000 for opioids like fentanyl, morphine and codeine.
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A medic ran up and injected King with morphine as he bled to death.
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She said doctors had prescribed daily doses of morphine and anti-psychotics for him.
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I asked him what that entailed, since M1 had exhausted its supply of morphine.
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Global Health Uganda has a strategy for giving scarce morphine to patients in pain.
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My husband and I were devastated when we learned she was being prescribed morphine.
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Most people used laudanum (a tincture of morphine and codeine) purely as a medicine.
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Take morphine, a powerful drug that acts directly on neurochemical receptors in the brain.
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"I did not see anything today to indicate may be it was better than morphine, but I certainly did not feel that I saw anything that made it more dangerous than morphine," Kevin Zacharoff, a panel member who voted for the drug, said.
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Many studies had found that careful use of morphine for pain only very rarely slowed breathing, in part because pain itself was a powerful respiratory stimulus; morphine was more likely to prolong life than to shorten it, because it reduced the patient's distress.
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The volume declined to about 20193 billion milligrams of morphine in 2017, a 29% drop.
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Adams "was completely loaded on morphine" when her cat, Bubbles, joined her on the bed.
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The experimental drug, labeled AT121, affects the body differently than traditional opioids such as morphine.
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Unlike heroin or morphine, tramadol isn't eye-wateringly powerful, nor does it give extreme highs.
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The medical team discuss whether or not they have enough gauze, morphine and emergency blankets.
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She was found dead the next morning with morphine, cocaine and alcohol in her system.
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Since getting morphine, says Ms Akongo, she can at last get a good night's sleep.
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Morphine, an opioid used to manage pain, has been highly restricted in India since 1985.
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But fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin, up to 100 times stronger than morphine.
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It is 10,000 times stronger than morphine, and is a version of the painkiller fentanyl.
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I'm getting jabs of morphine and getting my clothes cut off me, and I'm crying.
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Its morphine content seemed too low, and India's manufacturing techniques were no match for Turkey's.
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The office said it couldn't tell whether the morphine was a sign of heroin use.
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As I was watching, I realized that had changed my pain levels more than morphine.
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I'm even on methadone for the pain, and I take a morphine and methadone combination.
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For him to wonder if my grandfather could see the sonogram pictures through the morphine.
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Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid painkiller that's 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine.
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But pharmacists from hospitals outside Lagos, the commercial capital, must travel there to buy morphine.
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Senegal, for example, has asked for a similar morphine quota each year since the 1960s.
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But genetic differences can trigger the liver to create too little or not enough morphine.
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She'd been refusing food and drink, but she took the scheduled syringes of morphine willingly.
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Cocaine, barbiturates, ketamine, Viagra, cannabis, beta-blockers, Ritalin, and morphine have been found in greyhounds.
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Fentanyl is 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine.
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The morphine provided by hospice didn't entirely kill the pain, and Jake couldn't get comfortable.
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The doctor suggested giving Mr. Quintana morphine, although that could make breathing even more difficult.
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We were taking 60 Dilaudids a day, 160 milligrams of morphine, heroin and everything else.
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These brief moments of peace were induced by the morphine needed to control her symptoms.
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Fentanyl is 22017 times more potent than heroin and 22019 times more potent than morphine.
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It is an arresting still life of Lenny Bruce's death, by morphine overdose, in 1966.
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They'd have to give him morphine by mouth and wait for it to take effect.
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Hana, a young Canadian nurse, stays on devotedly, supplying him with morphine and foraged food.
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Morphine was available to treat injuries during the Civil War, transforming patient health and comfort.
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I wouldn't take morphine, telling everyone, 'No, I'm going to race, I'm going to race.
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" Lesley Manville plays the morphine-addicted mother in Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night.
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But she couldn't tell me about Anatoly, or what had become of Morphine the cat.
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Naloxone can reverse the effects of an overdose on opioids like morphine, codeine, or heroin.
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The bottled morphine comes in two strengths: 4003 gram or 5 grams per 500 milliliters.
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The overdose that killed him at age 27 contained the prescription medications morphine and Xanax.
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Then, after tests raised suspicions, morphine was found in the infants' urine and the police were called, the authorities found a syringe with a mixture of what was believed to be breast milk and what turned out to be morphine in a nurse's locker.
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Pastorelli, who died of a morphine overdose in 2004, but there may be no more '90s
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Buprenorphine doesn't produce the same high as morphine, which makes it less addictive physically and mentally.
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Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that can be as much as 100 times stronger than morphine.
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Fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin and up to 100 times more potent than morphine.
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The number of deaths related to hydrocodone and morphine abuse has remained relatively stable as well.
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I was still misgendered by my mother in the hospital—it hurt, even through the morphine.
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I never drank, I never smoked, I never did drugs, and I was on massive morphine.
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Of course, I've been to Arrested Development's model home and done morphine at Mr Robot's apartment.
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Morphine still runs short; only 11% of need is met but its use has become normal.
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Since 2011 the government and Hospice Africa have produced oral morphine in a public-private partnership.
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But Kerala has made the most progress of any Indian state in expanding access to morphine.
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Has heroin laced with fentanyl, the painkiller at least 50 times more potent than morphine, arrived?
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Prosecutor Paul Hagerman alleged Adams lived in a "dark, dark world" of methamphetamine and morphine addiction.
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Those are the same receptors activated by more well-known opioids such as morphine and heroin.
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Opioids Opioids include heroin and prescription pain relievers such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine, morphine and fentanyl.
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The drug is 100 times more potent than fentanyl and 10,000 times more potent than morphine.
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Subsys is an under-the-tongue spray containing fentanyl, an opioid 100 times stronger than morphine.
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It's the opioid that killed Prince, and it's 50 to 1003 times more potent than morphine.
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I went to the hospital and they shot me up with some morphine in my ass.
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When prescribed, these opioids equal more than 2180 milligrams of morphine (MME) a day in potency.
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Now, however, they were giving me enough morphine and ketamine to put an elephant to sleep.
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Half of these preventable deaths will be caused by prescription opioids such as morphine or oxycodone.
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Such pain can be quickly subdued with opioids — Percocet and Vicodin pills; intravenous morphine and Dilaudid.
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Morphine consumption data from the International Narcotics Control Board, she said, tells part of the story.
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In order to collect the morphine residues, he had covered the manuscript pages with plastic beads.
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" Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe play the same morphine-addicted Russian in "A Young Doctor's Notebook.
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The proposed quotas for 2019 would decrease manufacturing for oxycodone, hydrocodone, oxymorphone, hydromorphone, morphine and fentanyl.
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The proposed quotas for 22019 would decrease manufacturing for oxycodone, hydrocodone, oxymorphone, hydromorphone, morphine and fentanyl.
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May's department often resorts to using less potent medication, such as morphine during a fentanyl shortage.
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There were the sky-high daily doses of phenobarbital, morphine, and other narcotics that didn't help.
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Levomethorphan, a chemical five times stronger than morphine, was the contaminant that had caused the deaths.
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And that usually can be done only with opioid-based pain relievers — like morphine and fentanyl.
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Even powerful painkillers like morphine are much less effective when people don't know they've taken them.
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It requires physicians to practice medicine the way it was long before the discovery of morphine.
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He does so by means of adultery, drink, an obsession with skulls and guns, and morphine.
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Like morphine, it may operate on the opioid system, and it can induce feelings of euphoria.
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For seven years she had been taking morphine every day to treat symptoms of Lyme disease.
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Step two included morphine sustained-action and oxycodone sustained-action, and step three was transdermal fentanyl.
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According to hospital doctors, the suspect had access to the morphine storage unit on the ward.
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The drug, fentanyl, is a synthetic opioid, which can be 22015 times more potent than morphine.
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In extreme cases, when even morphine isn't enough, patients are given anesthesia to ease their deaths.
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Opioids, which also include morphine and heroin, were related to 81 percent of all the deaths.
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A comrade gave him shots of morphine and a friend supplied him with a life jacket.
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And with doctors in short supply, the law lets even nurses prescribe morphine after specialized training.
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It's up to 100 times as potent as morphine, and several times as potent as heroin.
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By the next evening Mom was on a steady morphine drip, drifting in and out of consciousness.
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Emergence of a crisis:1861-1865 - During the Civil War, medics use morphine as a battlefield anesthetic.
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He received a steady supply of morphine to numb the pain of the treatments keeping him alive.
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The theory was tested with the understanding that endorphins are even better at eliminating pain than morphine.
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As you're probably aware, the poppy's sap, called opium, contains pain-killing chemicals like morphine and codeine.
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Subsys is an under-the-tongue spray that contains fentanyl, an opioid 100 times stronger than morphine.
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Hensley says she preferred drugs like Percocet and morphine, but opted for heroin when short on cash.
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Fentanyl is roughly 50 times more potent than morphine and about 10 times more potent than heroin.
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In 1895 scientists at Bayer, a German pharmaceutical firm, began selling a strong morphine compound called diamorphine.
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Fentanyl is 50 times more potent than heroin and up to 100 times more potent than morphine.
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She told the authorities that Dr. Newman had given her an extra shot of morphine, disabling her.
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In 2008, a new policy went even further: requiring access to morphine where needed for palliative care.
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But she can't get morphine for the pain because she lives in West Bengal, rather than Kerala.
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A synthetic opioid, fentanyl is 2136 times stronger than heroin and 2494 times more potent than morphine.
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We won't accept a solution to be like morphine used only to tranquilize the anger of people.
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Fentanyl is a drug 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine.
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She didn't receive surgery until the hip fell out of its socket, requiring constant hospitalization and morphine.
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We're told he was taken into custody after his hearing after testing positive for cocaine and morphine.
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I used to stuff myself with morphine, but this has given me a new and better life.
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Morphine, which is a narcotic pain reliever, is a Schedule II drug that's only available via prescription.
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It, along with the Harrison Narcotic Act passed in 1914, prohibited morphine, heroin, marijuana and other drugs.
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For example, when morphine is in short supply, doctors might switch to hydromorphone, an alternative opiate painkiller.
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When heroin breaks down in the body, it becomes morphine, which is often used legitimately in surgery.
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In 21972, he was posted to an isolated hospital near Smolensk, where he became addicted to morphine.
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Fentanyl, which is 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine, was devised to treat chronic pain.
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We are well aware of the view held by many physicians that oxycodone is weaker than morphine.
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The "Saturday Night Live" star died December 18, 1997, from an accidental overdose of cocaine and morphine.
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She was now on hospice care, and with the next round of morphine, her hand let go.
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The synthetic opioid is about 80 to 100 times stronger than morphine and produces a powerful high.
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Much more recently, in 2014, the law was finally relaxed to allow access to morphine across India.
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At 134 milligrams per capita, our morphine consumption alone is almost double America's 73 milligrams per capita.
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The drug is 80 to 100 times more powerful than morphine, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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The patient, he said, was on morphine and would be lucky to last even a few days.
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I got myself to the emergency room, where nurses gave me morphine, Percocet, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories.
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In the 2504s, many doctors viewed morphine as a wonder drug for pain, diarrhea, nerves and alcoholism.
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Then: "The doctors at the first hospital wanted to put me on a morphine drip," she said.
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In a hospital, I would give somebody 10 milligrams of morphine but only 0.1 milligrams of fentanyl.
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Like the monster in a horror-movie franchise, each sequel — morphine, heroin, OxyContin, fentanyl — grows more terrifying.
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Overdoses linked to natural and semi-synthetic opioids like oxycodone and morphine are higher in rural counties.
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When they started giving her morphine, I knew that my wishes were not going to come true.
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Prescription opioids can be prescribed by doctors and include oxycodone or OxyContin, hydrocodone or Vicodin, and morphine.
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In the nurse's changing locker, the police found the feeding syringe with breast milk laced with morphine.
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Opiates are derived from nature, and there are only so many, drugs like morphine, heroin and codeine.
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And then there was the high drama that his mother, Mary Ellen, a morphine addict, indulged in.
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First, heroin is metabolized into morphine which is often mis-categorized as a prescription opioid at autopsy.
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Carfentanil is roughly 10,000 times more potent than morphine, according to the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
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Morphine is not prescribed nearly as freely in Uganda as opioids have been in the United States.
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She also recalled early opposition from older doctors who equated giving morphine to dying patients with euthanasia.
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Then a morphine shortage occurred in 2010 following price squabbling between the health ministry and private wholesalers.
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KS: Like I've always said, we don't need to smoke opium to get the effects of morphine.
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Last summer, he spent about a week in the hospital, where even morphine couldn't alleviate his symptoms.
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Oliceridine belongs to a class of opioids that includes morphine and fentanyl, which are commonly prescribed for pain.
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Fentanyl is 21 to 2000 times stronger than heroin and up to 2100 times more potent than morphine.
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People in higher BMI categories were also more likely to use stronger opioids that were similar to morphine.
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An overdose of opioids like morphine or heroin slows breathing, reducing the supply of oxygen to the body.
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When it comes to tackling the opioid crisis, public health workers start with the drugs: fentanyl, morphine, heroin.
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Trevena's oliceridine belongs to the same class of opioids as commonly prescribed painkillers such as morphine and fentanyl.
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The drug is up to 100 times more powerful than morphine and a small dose can be deadly.
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Unable to refill his prescription for morphine, Franny, in the throes of withdrawal, becomes a desperate, pitiable wreck.
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Opium poppies are used to make opium and heroin, as well as morphine and other pain-killing drugs.
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In a second experiment, they began to inject mice with morphine whenever they went into a specific theater.
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"Turns out a ruptured ovarian cyst really hurts and morphine makes me cry," she captioned the Instagram post.
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So opium, for example, is not an accepted medicine in the US. But how do you make morphine?
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But because morphine tablets sell so cheaply, companies are sometimes hesitant to produce them even with higher demand.
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Thankful to hear those Morphine-influenced horns on this track too, someone needed to bring that sound back.
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Alikoya Karathattya, who has gone through six rounds of chemotherapy, said morphine allowed him to sleep at night.
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Opioids are a class of drugs that include heroin and pain relievers, such as oxycodone, morphine and fentanyl.
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Fentanyl, some versions of which are approved to treat cancer pain, is 100 times more potent than morphine.
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Dealers can import large shipments of fentanyl for way less money and trouble than pure heroin or morphine.
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"He was on morphine for the pain and received daily medicated baths for about five weeks," said Lindler.
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The US Drug Enforcement Administration says opium poppy is a source for codeine, heroin, morphine and other narcotics.
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A Chinese manufacturer is voluntarily recalling all of its Licorice Coughing Liquid because it contains the opioid morphine.
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Some people are hypersensitive to morphine, and in those people, taking it could lead to severe allergic reactions.
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However, half of the white mothers received at least 234 morphine milligram equivalents a day of pain relief.
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Opioids such as morphine typically relieve pain by acting on opioid receptors distributed throughout the central nervous system.
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In some countries, Mr. Lohman said, "a clerical error in a morphine prescription" can lead to criminal inquiries.
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In Trinidad, for example, she said, officials refused to allow "the simplest type of morphine" for pain relief.
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The neo-banks have promised that they'll ease your pain, but that's just morphine for the real condition.
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Trevena's oliceridine belongs to the same class of opioids as commonly used painkillers such as morphine and fentanyl.
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A nurse gave me morphine while we waited for an ambulance to take me to a larger hospital.
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If that wasn't successful, patients next got long-acting morphine or oxycodone, and then doctors tried fentanyl patches.
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The synthetic opioid is often prescribed to cancer patients and can be 100 times more potent than morphine.
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His doctors did not know how to treat him, other than keeping him on morphine for the pain.
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A week ago, she can't breathe and they're giving her the morphine and now she's back at Trivia!
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The men are heavy drinkers, while Mary, newly released from a sanitarium, is fighting a dependency on morphine.
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But I got morphine out straight away and stabbed myself [with it] because I knew it would hurt.
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In the end, he needed so much morphine and methadone to control his pain that it killed him.
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Investigators later determined that Goebbels had arranged for a dentist to inject each of the children with morphine.
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She claims that within days of arriving in L.A., someone from a label gave him morphine and cocaine.
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But her newborn son was in withdrawal: jittery, screaming and requiring an infusion of morphine to stay alive.
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He listed a few so-called magic pills – valium, morphine – that had not lived up to their promise.
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For much of the second act, this morphine-addicted mother haunts her husband and sons with her absence.
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Back then, doctors began to prescribe a profitable and effective drug — morphine, taken via hypodermic needle — too liberally.
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It's 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine and 30 to 50 times more potent than heroin.
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Morphine is one of the most widely known pain killers, but it has a negative effect on respiration.
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But community hospitals in rural areas rarely have neonatal intensive care units in which staff can administer morphine.
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"Pink belongs to a family of deadly synthetic opioids far more potent than morphine," according to the agency.
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Some people—including some doctors and nurses—feared that opioids like morphine caused trouble breathing and hastened death.
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And once teens start misusing prescription painkillers (oxycodone and morphine), approximately 80 percent will transition to opiate dependence.
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In Kyrgyzstan, she was told, it's much harder to prescribe morphine and patients are always crying in pain.
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In fact, many governments around the world remain nervous about making morphine more available–and with good reason.
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Globally, the number of people using heroin, opium and morphine has changed little in recent years, the report indicated.
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" After the autopsy, Renfro's death ended up being ruled an accident and was attributed to "acute heroin/morphine intoxication.
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In mild pain tests with rhesus monkeys, AT-121 was found to be 100 times as potent as morphine.
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The high doses of morphine made it hard for her to form words, and she uttered them slowly, laboriously.
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In the show, we descend into secret brothels beneath clubs, and pharmacies that peddle morphine to addicted WWI veterans.
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It is 2819 to 22015 times more potent than morphine and 22014 to 210 times more powerful than heroin.
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It is 2100 to 100 times more potent than morphine and 30 to 50 times more powerful than heroin.
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After needles and morphine were deployed in the American civil war, as many as 100,000 veterans were left addicted.
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In Senegal the average patient who needs it gets 13mg of morphine a year, compared with 55,704mg in America.
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It is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine and 30 to 50 times more powerful than heroin.
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" Getting this form of morphine, which is cheap to manufacture and easy to deliver, is only possible because "Dr.
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Six months later she was back, with the oral morphine introduced and making a huge difference to people's lives.
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"[W]hat this means is that when patients are tolerant to morphine they could be offered NM0127," Uchegbu said.
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He hopes at each session that I will pull it out, suture his wound, and give him some morphine.
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Other drugs, including morphine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamine, can also be found on bills, though less commonly than cocaine.
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Globally, an estimated 15 million people are addicted to morphine and other opiates, according to the World Health Organization.
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And they are cheap: enough morphine to soothe a cancer patient for a month should cost just $2-5.
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Some, such as morphine, are made from the opium poppy; others, such as oxycodone, are semi-synthetic or synthetic.
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A fine white powder, fentanyl is easy to ship and is 2000 to 22016 times more powerful than morphine.
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From morphine and quinine 100 years ago, to EpiPen today, the outcry about drug-price increases is not new.
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"We are well aware of the view held by many physicians that oxycodone is weaker than morphine," he wrote.
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It's used to "self-treat heroin/morphine dependence, or to reduce opiate withdrawal among illicit drug users," he said.
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In 1885, a doctor in New York was charged with manslaughter after a patient died from a morphine overdose.
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It is up to 353 times more powerful than heroin and up to 100 times more potent than morphine.
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By 1920, through a series of legislative actions, Congress had outlawed heroin and reduced morphine to a controlled substance.
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Farley died of a cocaine and morphine overdose, and the photograph, in extremely poor taste, features his dead body.
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They are many times stronger than morphine and have a well-established safety record in medical and veterinary use.
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Mr. Gonzalez said he has frequently visited the hospital to treat his pain and morphine usually does the trick.
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An autopsy revealed Brown had morphine, cocaine, alcohol, and prescription drugs in her body at the time of death.
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Fentanyl is 20112 to 100 times more potent than morphine and 30 to 50 times more potent than heroin.
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Some go into withdrawal and require methadone or morphine to control their symptoms until they can be weaned off.
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Mackiewicz took him to New York and he checked in to Sloan Kettering, where he was immediately given morphine.
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I promised him, two or three days before he disappeared into the morphine, that I would do my best.
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It is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine and 30 to 1853 times more potent than heroin.
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The site claims to "help ease withdrawal symptoms associated with the use of OxyContin, morphine, Oxycodone," and other drugs.
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Her husband, who had an incurable lung disease, died in 1995 after his doctor increased his dose of morphine.
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Furthermore, these patent medicines often contained rather surprising ingredients, such as alcohol, opium, morphine, and even cocaine and heroin.
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As we reported, she had weed, cocaine, morphine (possibly from heroin), anti-anxiety pills and booze in her system.
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A toxicology report found marijuana, alcohol, "a cocaine-related substance," sedative and anti-anxiety medications and morphine in her system.
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Fentanyl, according to the CDC, is up to 100 times more potent than morphine and many times that of heroin.
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The extremely powerful, synthetic opiate is 80 times as potent as morphine and hundreds of times more potent than heroin.
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Another type of horror is the practice of nurses and doctors quietly increasing morphine drips without consent and without accountability.
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Researchers based at Stanford University have developed a morphine alternative that offers comparable painkilling but largely without the overdose risk.
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Some deaths in the United States have resulted from kratom's being laced with the prescription pain reliever hydrocodone or morphine.
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The drug is 25 to 50 times more potent than heroin and 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine.
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Two particularly interesting possibilities are the cannabinoids made by marijuana and the variations on opium and morphine made by poppies.
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Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that's about 100 times more powerful than morphine and 5003 times more potent than heroin.
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Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that's about 100 times more powerful than morphine and 40 times more potent than heroin.
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To make heroin or morphine and other semi-synthetic opioids like Oxycodone and hydrocodone, you first need to grow poppies.
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The effects of fentanyl, which is up to 100 times more powerful than morphine, are harder to reverse, Gutman added.
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By the time he had turned twenty-one, he had turned to more serious substances: heroin, morphine, amphetamines, and Demerol.
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But the three younger ones all tested positive for methamphetamines, while the infant also tested positive for heroin and morphine.
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To allow comparisons between different opioid medications, the researchers converted all prescription doses into so-called milligram morphine equivalents (MME).
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The company's main revenue generating drug is a highly addictive opiate 100 times more powerful than morphine, called Subsys Fentanyl.
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The problem is, because my bowels have been shortened, long-acting morphine doesn't work on me, so I take Toradol.
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When the former tried to offset the effects of the morphine by taking cocaine, he became addicted to that, too.
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Opioids include oxycodone, hydrocodone, fentanyl and morphine and are sold under such brand names as OxyContin, Percocet, Vicodin and Actiq.
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Its sole active ingredient is oxycodone, a chemical cousin of heroin which is up to twice as powerful as morphine.
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They could sleep through the night—a crucial improvement over conventional painkillers, such as morphine, which require more frequent dosing.
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The oncologist must then try a series of weaker pain medicines before asking a panel for permission to use morphine.
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The result of the increased endorphins, Johnson says, "[has] been shown to be stronger than morphine" in an equivalent dose.
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The total amount prescribed, measured in morphine milligram equivalents, is three times as high today as the level in 220006.
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The ants that had been gradually deprived of sugar and those never exposed to morphine went right back to sugar.
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Though some are derived naturally, such as heroin or morphine, others are synthesized in a lab, including hydrocodone and oxycodone.
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It is converted to morphine by a liver enzyme, and the speed of this conversion varies from person to person.
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Untested on humans In the late 1970s, the former pharmaceutical company Upjohn created U-47700 as an alternative to morphine.
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Opioids, such as morphine and oxycodone, are typically prescribed for pain relief, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
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Opioids include prescription painkillers, heroin and fentanyl, a highly addictive synthetic drug 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine.
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Claire invites Tom into the room and they both hold Elizabeth's hand as Claire feeds her morphine from a dropper.
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Studies show that when ketamine is given prior to or during surgery, it reduces morphine consumption and decreased pain scores.
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Why it matters: Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, according to the CDC.
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The highest-dose prescriptions, equivalent to 2000 milligrams or more of morphine daily, dropped even more sharply, by 242 percent.
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Ali explains how smugglers head to Pakistan through the mountains using back roads, to pick up morphine, heroin, or opium.
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In an email, Dr. Davaasuren said her country imported only small amounts of morphine and had no drug-abuse problem.
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But her mother, Nikki Horr, was secretly stealing bags of morphine and other painkillers from hospice patients who had died.
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"We try to be very selective," he said, adding that those with a low chance of survival received morphine directly.
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Opium — arguably man's first true analgesic — was supplanted by morphine after opium was found to cause physical and psychological dependence.
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His mother, Ella, was prescribed morphine after O'Neill's difficult birth in a hotel room while on tour with her husband.
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Smith claims Juice also used weed, Xanax, Ecstasy, morphine and coke ... but Percocet and lean were his go-to vices.
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Morphine is routinely stocked at neonatal departments to treat the withdrawal symptoms of babies born to mothers who are addicted.
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Morphine is routinely stocked at neonatal departments to treat the withdrawal symptoms of babies born to mothers who are addicted.
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In our 2009 conversation, he told me he paid cash to the hospital's staff to get morphine for the pain.
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Before developing OxyContin, the company, in 1984, created MS Contin, an extended-release, morphine-based drug to relieve cancer pain.
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" FYI, the CDC characterizes fentanyl as an opioid pain reliever that is "50 to 100 times more potent than morphine.
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Currently, some 85033 million people receive opioid medication through Medicare equivalent to 90 mg per day of morphine or more.
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Cheese proteins contain casomorphins, chemical compounds that attach to the same opiate receptors in the brain as heroin or morphine.
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Self-hatred led to self-medication, until his life, he said, was a cocktail party of morphine, heroin and pills.
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My patient breathed quickly for a moment, a little gasp, and then the morphine hit him and his breaths quieted.
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But this is obviously not a tenable solution: It's like zonking yourself out on morphine while the cancer painlessly devours you.
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Already suffering agonizing headaches and terrifying seizures, she feared being in so much pain that no amount of morphine could help.
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I took the mask off the patient and then gave her a dose of morphine every few minutes until she died.
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" Dunham went into detail describing her experience with morphine, saying "It takes your pain and pushes it away from your body.
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The pain reliever is more than 100 times as strong as morphine and 30 to 50 times more powerful than heroin.
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In fact, when tests have been done there's about a 600-fold variation in the amount of morphine in poppy seeds.
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This gave way, she continued, to feelings of depression, and despair, and addiction—particularly morphine-addiction among World War I veterans.
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"They were under dosages of morphine, but they held hands and those hands remained clasped until the very end," says Daniel.
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He's addicted to morphine, and continues shooting himself up with the drugs that are supposedly extending his life — but not well.
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They discovered that, unusually, tramadol is far more effective when taken orally — for some, tablets can be as powerful as morphine.
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At issue is its chemistry: Kratom latches on to some of the same brain receptors that heroin, morphine, and fentanyl do.
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A HUNDRED years ago, Coca Cola contained cocaine and was held up as a cure for impotence, headaches and morphine addiction.
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Around the same time, researchers also explored its potential to modulate the analgesic effects of the opioid morphine for pain management.
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Opioids — drugs that replicate the pain-reducing properties of opium — include both legal painkillers like morphine and illegal drugs like heroin.
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Fentanyl is a "synthetic opioid 50-100 times more potent than morphine," according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
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" Her pain and discomfort has continued to increase daily and so has the morphine to help her be comfortable," he continued.
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She was raving like a crazed woman – she knew they would give her morphine and was afraid she'd never regain consciousness.
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Tens of millions of people in need of palliative care have severely limited access, even to oral morphine for pain relief.
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My sister, father, and I spent the last 24 hours of her life dosing her with morphine and stroking her forehead.
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Fentanyl is commonly used by cancer patients for pain relief, and it is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine.
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In India, access to opioids like morphine tablets was never widespread in the period after the country achieved independence from Britain.
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They dosed me with fifty CC's of Dilaudid (four times stronger than morphine) directly into my IV, and it did nothing.
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Subtracting the amount of morphine prescribed to patients in tested areas gave an idea of how much heroin was in circulation.
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According to law enforcement officials, the drug is 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine.
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When we take opioids like morphine as drugs, they're absorbed throughout the body, affecting everything from our brain to the gut.
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Cannon said Christenson was given morphine for pain during the delivery and that was the source of it in the infant.
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Legal dispensaries were also associated with an average of 361,000 fewer daily doses of morphine prescriptions each year, the study found.
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Endorphins then interact with your body's perception of pain, similar to the way opioids (like morphine or oxycodone) would, she says.
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Opiates include morphine and the prescription painkillers codeine, oxycodone, oxycontin, hydrocodone and fentanyl as well as illegal drugs such as heroin.
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"Injecting a patient with super-potent morphine could result in serious consequences including respiratory depression, coma, and death," the agency said.
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Later, it was determined that Lacey had ingested Benadryl, morphine and diazepam, a generic form of Valium, reports Westchester's Journal News.
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Some of the price increases, including the one on morphine, the spokesman noted, came to as little as $1 per vial.
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Fentanyl is up to 100 times more potent than morphine and can be 30 to 50 times more powerful than heroin.
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To relieve severe pain, people go to their physician for powerful prescription painkillers, opioid drugs such as morphine, oxycodone and hydrocodone.
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When the medical establishment realized that morphine was, in fact, quite addictive, there was another drug to take its place: heroin.
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We're seeing things on the street right now like carfentanil, which is 10,000 times stronger than morphine, and fentanyl-laced crack.
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The changes last six months before "shortages of cocaine and morphine during World War Two" resulted in the law being cancelled.
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In a few instances, states have moved to set limits on opioid dosage, placing restrictions on milligrams of morphine per day.
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People in the opioid group started therapy with fast-acting morphine, a combination of hydrocodone and acetaminophen, or immediate release oxycodone.
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A hospice nurse put extra vials of morphine on the table near her IV for her husband and left the house.
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But then, a few weeks ago, serious pain set in and Delores asked the Denver Hospice to begin giving her morphine.
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In 2009, the US, Canada and Europe accounted for 18 percent of global population, but 90 percent of global morphine consumption.
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The father of two children, ages 12 and 19, he said he was taking morphine for pain, including an aching spine.
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In the future, we might be delivering products like morphine that are actually controlled substances that you could imagine being stolen.
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Not long before, he nearly died from chronic neural and respiratory problems, and developed a morphine addiction from the pain treatment.
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For Ms. Brunn, the marijuana pills have worked so well that she has cut back on her other pain medication, morphine.
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After the death of her father, a prominent hotel owner in Seattle, Ella Henderson started taking morphine to ease her grief.
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Hank had two or three copies left of one print, "Morphine at Dawn," and he gave me one during my residency.
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The police say they believe the nurse in Ulm gave the babies morphine during their feeding, but the investigation is continuing.
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This produces a more refined opiate, morphine base, which is then boiled with acetic anhydride and sodium carbonate to create heroin.
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He was given oral morphine to control his tremors, stop his inconsolable crying and to help him to eat and grow.
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On August 2200, 1966, Bruce, out on bond for the appeal of his case, was found dead of a morphine overdose.
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Uganda could be a model to other developing nations where officials fear that providing morphine could set off an opioid crisis.
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He takes morphine for pain, but 25 million people worldwide die in agony each year without access to such pain relief.
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Fentanyl is often used to treat people who have developed a tolerance to less powerful opiates such as Percocet and morphine.
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Not only did palliative care not exist, but it was impossible to get hold of morphine or other opioid-based painkillers.
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By mixing Eastern European poppy seeds, known for their low morphine levels, with cheaper poppy seeds from the UK that have higher levels of the popular painkiller, FDL claims its new blend boasts morphine levels below 20 parts per million, compared to the 900 parts per million for the poppy seeds covering the bagel you probably ate this morning.
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In addition, there is evidence that 10 percent of marijuana consumers develop an addiction, although not as strong as one to morphine.
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WATCH: The Secret to Perfectly Seared Steak Myrick was hospitalized and administered antivenin, morphine and benadryl for the severe swelling and pain.
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The company had come under fire for its marketing practices related to Subsys, an opioid that is 100 times stronger than morphine.
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Some pills that were analyzed contained fentanyl, lidocaine and U-47700 — a synthetic drug that is eight times more powerful than morphine.
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Studies show that widely used painkillers like morphine, buprenorphine and tramadol are markedly less effective if we don't know we're taking them.
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Of course, it wasn't ever thus - the history of motor-racing includes drivers who raced on morphine, amphetamines, and much more besides.
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Most people believe Benjamin overdosed on morphine to evade capture by the Nazis (though of course there are all kinds of theories).
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However, the medical examiner's office in Atlanta said the test could not indicate whether the morphine was the result of heroin use.
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Admittedly, previous efforts to make such vaccines against small-molecule drugs, including methamphetamine, nicotine, cocaine and morphine, all failed in the end.
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention classifies fentanyl as a synthetic opioid 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine.
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Just, 'He seems to be a bit distressed, we can't have him shouting, upsetting the other children—here, have lots of morphine.
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Far stronger than heroin, fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that's estimated to be between 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine.
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Because now, for example, you can't have a crash terminal inside a hospital lying around that has fentanyl or morphine on it.
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But try another recipe, and you've got morphine, codeine, or thebaine—the chemical bases you can refine even further into heady painkillers.
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This allows the user a short period of euphoria without hours of impairment, unlike morphine, heroin, methadone, and other longer-acting opiates.
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More than half his body was set alight when a gas hob exploded in his house, but he is given no morphine.
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"They felt that if they were prescribed morphine, that meant there was nothing else that could be done for them," she says.
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Opioids, primarily prescription painkillers, heroin and fentanyl - a drug 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine - are fueling the drug overdoses.
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Early research on addiction offered lab rats the opportunity to self-administer morphine (or sometimes other substances) in the water they drank.
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Doctors prescribe it as an injection, patch, lollipop, or nasal spray for patients with severe pain that can't be treated with morphine.
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A drug more powerful than heroin Pharmaceutical fentanyl is an opiate drug that is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine.
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Before long, he was taking 30 milligrams of morphine and 30 milligrams of oxycodone three times daily, a combined dosage considered high.
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The plant, which is related to coffee, contains alkaloids that bind the same opioid receptor as morphine, meaning it can treat pain.
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In 2013 it applied for only 1 kilo of morphine—about enough to soothe the pain of 200 patients with advanced cancer.
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Toxicology results showed that the engineer tested positive for marijuana, while the deceased maintenance workers tested positive for morphine, codeine and oxycodone.
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The average out-of-pocket price for 100 milligrams of morphine plummeted to 90 cents in 2012, down from $21625 in 2900.
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The difficulty lies in getting the dosage right, since fentanyl is 100 times stronger than morphine and 50 times stronger than heroin.
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You really have to temper that drug of choice, whether it's alcohol or morphine, with honoring the text and telling the story.
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Codeine alone has very little useful pharmacologic activity, but the liver chemically alters it into its active form, morphine, and another chemical.
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He said in a 2010 interview that the pressure of creating it left him addicted to alcohol and morphine for many years.
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But thinking about the case gives him crippling indigestion, and his father (Jérémie Renier) suffers back pain that requires a morphine injection.
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Administering morphine to rainbow trout changes their behavior, suggesting that they feel pain, and a common human painkiller works to fight it.
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Heroin was engineered to address the massive opium and morphine epidemic that swept across the country in the early to mid-1800s.
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Lawmakers and health officials have said fentanyl, which is about 100 times more potent than morphine, has fueled the opioid overdose epidemic.
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Morphine is being set aside for patients who need surgery, he said, and the facility has about a week's supply of fentanyl.
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To take advantage of the shortfall, Hikma has been focusing on the manufacture of opioid products such as fentanyl, meperidine and morphine.
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As they embody various degrees of love, lust and last-ditch deceptions, a cynical morphine-addicted doctor (William Ryall) oversees the proceedings.
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Generally, fentanyl is described as anywhere from 40 to 100 times more potent than morphine and several times more potent than heroin.
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Fentanyl, which killed Tom Petty and Prince, is 50 times stronger than heroin, which itself is roughly twice as potent as morphine.
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Many have embraced it as an alternative to powerful drugs like morphine, saying that marijuana is less addictive, with fewer side effects.
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This first outbreak, typically traced to the popularization of hypodermically injected morphine, began to spread in the wake of the Civil War.
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At the beginning, she cried every time the nurse squirted the tiny plastic syringe, full of clear morphine, into the baby's mouth.
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Pet euthanasia generally includes a heavy morphine-based sedative that peacefully knocks the animal out, followed by a heart stopper-chemical injection.
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The local clinic would provide outpatient support, including his weekly prescription of morphine tablets—all covered by Mongolia's national health insurance plan.
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Behind the locked door of the hospital's main dispensary for morphine and other opioid painkillers, I am firmly back in the present.
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Without the mask she would gasp for breath, suffering greatly, and frequent doses of morphine would be needed to relieve this air hunger.
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A toxicology report found marijuana, alcohol, "a cocaine-related substance," sedatives, anti-anxiety medications and morphine in her system when she was found.
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Another high-potency opioid frequently linked to overdoses is the elephant tranquilizer carfentanil, a form of fentanyl that's 10,000 times stronger than morphine.
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There are about 10 additional deaths involving high levels of morphine or doses of fentanyl under 400 micrograms that are still being investigated.
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The Centers for Disease Control estimates that fentanyl is 80 times as potent as morphine and hundreds of times more potent than heroin.
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The drug, sufentanil, is an opioid 500 to 1,000 times more potent than morphine, and up to 10 times more powerful than fentanyl.
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For those who are already dependent, the guidelines recommend limiting prescriptions to less than the equivalent of 90 milligrams of morphine a day.
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Underneath the total increase is the surge in deaths dues to fentanyl and related synthetic opioids, more powerful relatives of heroin and morphine.
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Loaded on booze, morphine, chloral hydrate, and vitamin B12, Williams crawled into the back seat, wrapped a blanket around himself, and laid down.
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An autopsy found Alycia died of acute drug intoxication with the presence in her body of opiates, morphine, amphetamine, methamphetamine and other drugs.
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It is 25 to 50 times more potent than heroin and 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, according to the DEA.
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Kratom, which has been consumed in Southeast Asia for centuries, binds to the same opioid receptor as morphine — so it can treat pain.
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An autopsy found she died of acute drug intoxication with the presence in her body of opiates, morphine, amphetamine, methamphetamine and other drugs.
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AROUND 1936 three neurologists at Harvard Medical School raided the medicine cabinet, filling their boots with morphine, barbiturates, ethers and even cobra venom.
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Tests of the substances were conducted on mice compared to morphine, and the 218th compound, W-0003, was found to have the strongest.
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In some countries, cheap morphine tablets are paradoxically less available than more expensive opioids because their profit margins are unappealing to pharmaceutical companies.
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The physician administered a dose of intravenous morphine, and as the drug took effect, the woman's body eased and she began to weep.
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The drawbacks of the drug are that it is no less addictive than morphine and it can only be used in hospital settings.
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"When I went for the interview, I saw patients in agony and I said, 'I can't come unless you get morphine,' " said Merriman.
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" Landau was named best supporting actor for his portrayal in "Ed Wood" of the fading, morphine-addicted Hungarian horrormeister Lugosi, star of "Dracula.
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Though we don't exactly know why, Hank's owner said that the poor pup was home from the vet with morphine in his system.
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Before the Nazis came to power, the Weimar Republic had been hooked on the purest morphine and cocaine, plentiful and cheap as liquor.
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In the hotel that night, the pain got so bad I went back to the hospital where they injected me intravenously with morphine.
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The Centers for Disease Control estimates that fentanyl is 80 times as potent as morphine and hundreds of times more potent than heroin.
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The regulator said the poppy derivatives it detected included morphine and codeine and called on local authorities to step up their monitoring efforts.
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The drug, 100 times stronger than morphine, has helped fuel the recent national opioid crisis, which has brought a surge in overdose deaths.
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One is a long-acting, time-released opioid called Kadian that delivers 240 milligrams of morphine or its equivalent (MME) throughout the day.
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It is 2120,22015 times more powerful than morphine and 100 times more powerful than fentanyl, greatly increasing the likelihood of overdose and death.
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Fentanyl, an extremely powerful drug, is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine and 20173 to 50 times more potent than heroin.
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An outpatient program seemed to help, but Eldred still craved fentanyl, an highly addictive narcotic painkiller that's 100 times more potent than morphine.
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Recent research has shown that one of the two active ingredients, 7-hydroxymitragynine, can be several times more potent than morphine, Boyer said.
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Fentanyl is a painkiller that is up to 50 times more powerful than heroin and up to 100 times more potent than morphine.
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It is 100 times more powerful than fentanyl, the OxyContin pill it is supposed to resemble, and 10,000 times more powerful than morphine.
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He was in severe pain, so severe that multiple doses of morphine and the traditional opioid pain relievers were not working for him.
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In previous years, the amount of opium seized in Afghanistan would far outnumber, by at least five times, the processed morphine and heroin.
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Then there's Dr. Walker, the local physician and a morphine addict (a pitch-perfect Robert Joy), who serves as a semi-omniscient narrator.
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Over four days, she used nasal oxygen to help her breathe and received intravenous morphine for pain relief, later graduating to oxycodone tablets.
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Imagine the shock when Mary Tyrone kicks morphine, when George and Martha funnel some black coffee into their guests and head to bed.
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And in 2010, the INCB agreed that countries with few doctors should allow nurses to prescribe morphine, a reversal from previous policy recommendations.
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At some point in my morphine haze, a lady came through to explain my insurance while my husband was out getting new glasses.
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Mr. Vander Linde, a nurse, tried three other compartments that would normally contain vials of morphine or another painkiller, hydromorphone. Empty. Empty. Empty.
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His brother Jamie wasn't so lucky — he drank himself to death after their mother, having finally beat morphine, died from a brain tumor.
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In contrast to morphine, which had serious drawbacks when used in major surgery, fentanyl produced a smooth, predictable anesthesia with minimal side effects.
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Opioids are a class of drugs that includes illicit fentanyl and heroin, as well as commonly prescribed painkillers, such as oxycodone and morphine.
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Most started out like Ella Henderson, who suffered from emotional trauma and chronic pain, for which she was prescribed copious amounts of morphine.
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But the column that too often jumped off the page detailed the opioid dosages doctors prescribed, measured by morphine milligram equivalent, or MME.
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The bombardier applied a tourniquet and shot him with morphine, but the leg could not be saved; it was amputated the next day.
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But the tests showed traces of morphine in all of the infants — even the two who had not been prescribed the pain killer.
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The morphine that is officially prescribed by doctors at the hospital in Ulm is kept locked away, and each use is carefully recorded.
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"We've, unfortunately, seen them spiked with morphine in some cases, and we've also seen ones that have been spiked with oxycodone," McCurdy said.
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The affected products are typically longstanding staples, like epinephrine or morphine, and are often sterile injectable drugs that sell for low profit margins.
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It was a retro strategy, harking back to the cure-all claims the companies had made decades earlier to promote narcotics like morphine.
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Enough morphine to treat the entire world for end-of-life suffering would cost only $53 million a year, the Lancet report found.
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Infants with severe enough withdrawals receive tiny oral doses of morphine, which are slowly decreased until the baby is weaned off of opiates.
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More and more patients are being treated for opioid dependency, and are reporting addictions to methadone, buprenorphine, fentanyl, codeine, morphine, tramadol, and oxycodone.
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I paged the orthopedic resident and demanded that the order be changed to IV pain control, since he already had an IV. When the resident tried to scare me by telling me that IV morphine might suppress his breathing, I just plain pulled rank, insisting that I was a doctor myself and had managed lots of kids on IV morphine.
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The age-adjusted death rate from these drugs, which are many times more potent than heroin and morphine, has more than doubled since 2015.
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And "in Brazil, they are working on an analgesic from the rattlesnake protein that is stronger than morphine and is not addictive," he says.
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She is an instructor of psychology at a local college and the mother of a teenage daughter, and she agonizes over her morphine dependency.
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They say there's "strong evidence" that kratom affects the same opioid receptors as morphine, and using it could lead to addiction, abuse, and dependence.
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Fentanyl, a drug at least 50 times more powerful than morphine with derivatives that are tens of thousands of times stronger, keeps killing Americans.
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And the tests appear to register fentanyl analogues like carfentanil (10,000 times stronger than morphine) and furanyl fentanyl (20 times stronger), according to Lysyshyn.
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" "[Harris] would direct his employed nurses to overdose hospice patients with palliative medications such as morphine to hasten death, and thereby minimize Novus' (paybacks).
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But, before I knew it, I was waking up hooked up to a morphine drip with a nurse feeding me water through a straw.
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Hikma's U.S. injectables division - its largest unit - has been prioritizing the manufacture of opioid products affected by shortages including fentanyl, meperidine, morphine and hydromorphone.
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Subsys is an under-the-tongue spray intended for managing pain in cancer patients that contains fentanyl, an opioid 100 times stronger than morphine.
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Americans were developing a taste for opium too, particularly after Civil War veterans returned home with morphine to dull the pain of battle scars.
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Fentanyl is 50 to 100 times more potent than the drug morphine, and experts say some fentanyl-like molecules can be far more potent.
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Heroin and/or morphine potentially contributed to 45% of the deaths in 2018 – the number for methadone was 47% and for cocaine was 23%.
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While some deaths may be due to illegal narcotics like heroin, others are caused by opioid medications like oxycodone, fentanyl, hydrocodone, morphine, and methadone.
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The primary substance associated with the addiction surge is Tramadol, an analgesic not entirely unlike codeine or morphine, with a high potential for abuse.
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Treatments included hypnosis, electrotherapy, hydrotherapy, full-body massage, painkillers like morphine, rest cures, "fat" cures (excessive feeding), seclusion, "female castration," and, of course, institutionalization.
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That too was declared pilot error; Halladay apparently had "high concentrations of morphine and amphetamine" along with Ambien in his system at the time.
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Fentanyl is a powerful opioid that is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine and 30 to 50 times more potent than heroin.
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Fentanyl ranks as the most potent narcotic known - 25 to 50 times stronger than heroin and 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine.
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As an emergency medicine physician, she knew three of the most common injectable opioid painkillers — morphine, hydromorphone, and fentanyl — would be in short supply.
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Dodman and Shuster gathered horses with severe problems, who would pace and bite at guardrails, and gave them narcotic antagonists—the opposite of morphine.
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Only one nurse has the key to that storage, and whenever you take out things like opioids or morphine, it has to be documented.
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" He says that substances with therapeutic and psychoactive powers have always faced resistance: "It happened to morphine, and now it's the time for cannabis.
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Her mother was a musician, her father a well-off, seemingly hedonistic expat, who died, possibly of a morphine overdose, when Pelton was 9.
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The under-the-tongue spray is meant only for treating pain in cancer patients and contains fentanyl, an opioid 100 times stronger than morphine.
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When Brittany lost her father a few years ago, she began taking cocaine and injecting hydromorphone, an opioid several times more potent than morphine.
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And the country's decision to crack down on opium ended up hurting the medical system by starving chronically ill patients of painkillers like morphine.
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They advise doctors to prescribe opioids to new patients only for a short time, and with a daily dose below 22018 morphine milligram equivalents.
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My best friend was Cyclimorph, a kind of morphine I shot up that sounds more like a Transformer than a means of pain relief.
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In 2017, Nebraska and Nevada announced they would use fentanyl, which is 100 times more powerful than morphine, in new multi-drug execution protocols.
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Glick found that 18-MC attenuated opioid withdrawal and decreased self-administration of morphine, cocaine, nicotine, and methamphetamine in rats, just as ibogaine did.
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The new kick came from fentanyl, an opiate painkiller 13 to 21 times more powerful than morphine, that was mixed in with the heroin.
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Benjamin took a room in the Hotel de Francia, retired for the night, and several hours later killed himself by overdosing on morphine tablets.
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Beyond that, she has a great deal of moxie as well as a reserve of "housewife morphine" that will last for a little while.
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Caffeine, morphine and naloxone, a drug that reverses opioid overdoses, were among a series of substances found in Gordon's system, according to toxicology results.
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Opioids are a class of pharmaceuticals that include prescription painkillers such as OxyContin, morphine and fentanyl, as well as illicit drugs such as heroin.
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An extremely powerful synthetic drug, fentanyl is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine and 30 to 50 times more potent than heroin.
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Overdoses of opioids like morphine or heroin can be deadly because these drugs slow breathing, thereby reducing the supply of oxygen to the body.
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When scientists copied its structure in the lab they found it to be 1000 times more powerful than morphine, and, they think, less addictive.
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"She's had some good days, some bad days – some wonderful moments, and some deep pain that the morphine just couldn't seem to touch," Rory explains.
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The discovery of morphine can indicate Halladay used heroin, the Daily News reports, but the coroner found no definite indication he had used the drug.
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"There's only been one trial that's gone out to a year, and that was a head-to-head study comparing morphine to fentanyl," explained Chou.
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Pot cannot replace drugs like morphine, said Corral, herself a medical cannabis patient, but it can help to distract a dying patient from the pain.
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It's 25 to 50 times more potent than heroin and 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
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The actor went on to share how he's been "sleeping a lot" and even said he "narrowly dodged a coma" after accidentally overdosing on morphine.
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And as the Post points out, one of the deadliest is fentanyl, which is estimated to be between 50 and 100 times stronger than morphine.
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Budgeting for palliative care is still dysfunctional, however, and both Vallath and Rajagopal say that entire generations of doctors haven't been trained to use morphine.
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Providing palliative care without morphine is like "driving a car without fuel", says Emmanuel Luyirika, of the Kampala-based African Palliative Care Association in Uganda.
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Neuroscientists from the University of Colorado have found a peculiar and paradoxical effect in rats subject to morphine treatment: They tend to experience pain longer.
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Each of these compounds binds to opioid receptors — specific proteins found in the brain, spinal cord and other organs in the body — just like morphine.
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My hands are in pain and I am out of it because of the morphine, but I play a few songs to an enthusiastic crowd.
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Opioids, primarily prescription painkillers, heroin and synthetic drugs like fentanyl, a pain medicine 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine, are fueling the crisis.
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The toxicology results show Halladay had zolpidem (the generic name for Ambien), as well as morphine in his system at the time of the crash.
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You're sure you know how but after a whole month lying completely flat in a bed watching Tyra on morphine your body just says no.
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People who have gone from taking prescription pills to injecting heroin (an opioid made from morphine) are a big part of the new infections. 4.
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The Federal Institute for Risk Assessment writes that until food manufacturers reduce morphine levels in poppy seeds, it advises against excessive consumption, particularly during pregnancy.
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In Armenia morphine is only available to cancer patients, who must rush from ministry to ministry filling in forms to receive a few days' supply.
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Tariffs, import licences and high costs for small-scale local production mean that morphine can cost twice as much in poor places as rich ones.
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According to internal documents, Purdue officials discovered that many doctors wrongly assumed that oxycodone was less potent than morphine—a misconception that the company exploited.
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This panicky "air hunger" can be mitigated with escalating doses of morphine, but it's a miserable, desperate end that, once witnessed, is not easily forgotten.
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On Broadway, it has been a year of women: waitresses, shopgirls, concubines, Revolutionary sisters, a literary editor, a morphine addict and many victims of abuse.
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Prescriptions, which had more than quadrupled from 180 morphine milligram equivalents per-capita in 1999 to 782 in 2010, were down to 640 in 2015.
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We have learned that the amount of morphine produced from codeine liver metabolism can vary widely from person to person, a result of genetic differences.
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Many of those deaths were due to the synthetic opioid fentanyl, which is 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine.
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Fentanyl, one of the deadliest synthetic opioids, is up to 50 times more potent than heroin and can be 100 times more potent than morphine.
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"It really posed a problem," said Husainy, who was certain she was in pain even after giving her several doses of the less potent morphine.
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In 19903, official government statistics estimated there to be 700 morphine "addicts" in Britain, of which a sixth were medical practitioners, the gatekeepers of narcotics.
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"It's like you have a guy who has a gaping chest wound and you give him morphine instead of filling the chest wound," he said.
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That makes fentanyl far cheaper to produce, without the hassle of growing opium poppy and then converting the poppy into morphine and then into heroin.
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His veins flowed with the morphine a rotating cast of doctors pumped into him — a treatment that alleviated the pain caused by his mysterious symptoms.
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Since 20023, more than 200,000 overdose deaths in the United States have been attributed to OxyContin and other prescription opioids like hydrocodone, morphine and methadone.
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It's 25 to 50 times more potent than heroin and 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
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Unlike morphine or heroin, which are derived from the opium poppy, synthetics such as oxycodone and the extremely potent fentanyl are manufactured purely from chemicals.
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After six days of morphine, the baby had nearly been tapered off the drug and was set to be released in a few more days.
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Fentanyl is a synthetic pain medication, which is up to 100 times more powerful than morphine, and has been used increasingly as a recreational drug.
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Fentanyl is an opioid estimated to be 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine, and it's often added to heroin to increase its potency.
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Morphine given without a person knowing — surreptitiously, in a IV drip — is 50 percent less effective than when it is given in front of them.
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"The whole context was not to stigmatize oxycodone in a way that morphine was stigmatized," Mr. Sackler said, referring to the active ingredient in OxyContin.
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Using a computer model, for instance, they found that most of the top 25 compounds in kratom had a similar chemical structure to opioids like morphine.
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A class of drugs that includes morphine and hydrocodone, opioids get their name from opium, Greek for "poppy juice," the source from which they are extracted.
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Narcoleptic mice dosed with morphine for at least two weeks had their level of hypocretin-producing cells brought back to normal, Siegel and his team found.
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Opioids, primarily prescription painkillers, in addition to heroin and fentanyl - a pain medicine 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine - are fueling the drug overdoses.
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Never mind that at least half a dozen of what are concerned the great works of American drama are essentially four-hour arguments about morphine addiction.
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And despite being given morphine, Francis said she "felt everything" during hydrotherapy, turning a treatment meant to reduce swelling and soothe pain into an excruciating process.
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Massachusetts' attorney general has also sued the Sacklers and argues the family led doctors to believe, incorrectly, that OxyContin was a weaker, safer drug than morphine.
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The original autopsy, which found that Leicy was a heroin user, ruled her cause of death intoxication by the combined effects of morphine, cocaine and buprenorphine.
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Roughly 5.5 billion people — three quarters of the world's population — have insufficient or no access to morphine, codeine, and other controlled substances used for pain relief.
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It was day two, after the morphine and oxycodone started to wear off, when I started to feel like I had been hit by a bus.
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Then in 1996 Purdue, a private pharmaceutical firm, launched OxyContin, a pill that releases oxycodone, an opioid that, like heroin, is twice as strong as morphine.
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Hospice Africa Uganda was set up in 1993 — the same year morphine was brought in — with a vision to provide palliative care to all in need.
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Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that can be anywhere from 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine and its use has skyrocketed in the 2010s.
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On January 24, 2018, White called police claiming a woman broke into the guesthouse and stole $80 and three prescription bottles containing Xanax, morphine, and oxycodone.
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Prescription drugs, even morphine, lost their effectiveness and the chronic pain from nerve damage only got worse, to the point that it threatened to kill him.
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Fentanyl, which made headlines when Prince overdosed on it in April, is a lab-created synthetic opioid that's 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine.
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The painkiller is similar to that of morphine and the Drug Enforcement Administration said it's not aware of any commercial or medical reason for its use.
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With the help of a former classmate, Zilberstein matched the drug traces to samples of prewar Moscow morphine from the archive of the city's police department.
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Some, such as morphine, bind to the receptor and activate two signaling pathways: one mediating pain cessation and the other producing side effects like respiratory depression.
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Beginning in the 19th century, chemists derived ever more potent forms of this class of drugs: morphine, oxycodone, heroin and codeine, to name just a few.
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Hitler was famously vegetarian—not counting the Bulgarian fecal matter his personal physician, Dr. Morell, would supposedly mix in with his injections of morphine and methedrine.
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She took leftover morphine and injected it at the end of her shift, before being spotted by security guards, and was given a suspended prison sentence.
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The vast majority of those lethal overdoses involved opioids, a drug classification comprising prescription painkillers like Oxycodone and Percocet, morphine, and the illegal street counterpart, heroin.
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Public health officials blame a black market flooded with more dangerous options like fentanyl, a highly addictive synthetic that is 100 times more potent than morphine.
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In the West, doctors administered morphine liberally to their patients, while families used laudanum, an opium tincture, as a cure-all, including for pacifying colicky children.
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In the US, consumption of morphine in 21960 was 21980 times higher than in 21989 (increasing from 23.5 mg per person to 21999 mg per person).
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These sources said MbN had shrapnel in his body that could not be removed and he depended on drugs such as morphine to alleviate the pain.
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In response to a limited legal supply, heroin, cocaine and morphine continued to hold sway in the black-market economies of the streets and side alleys.
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