Morphine is a pain killer used in medicine with real success, unfortunately many people misuse it. From morphine comes and the well known codeine, from the morphine comes and the “well known” heroin and a large number of opioids. And the easiness of passing from morphine to heroin is frightening. Morphine is just commonly treated [...]

 
Although the morphine and it’s derivatives are used very successfully in medicine as pain killers, the current perception is “morphine addiction” when someone name morphine. Unfortunately, the illicit use of high doses in the absence of pain which can impart a morbid craving for the drug in the user leads many people to this perception. [...]

 
Morphine can be taken in many ways, either orally, subcutaneously, intravenously, rectally, intrathecally or epidurally. It is more usual to be inhaled on the streets, the so called “chasing the dragon”. Of course, for medicinal purposes, morphine is usually administrated intravenously. When taken orally, a large proportion is broken down in the liver, so only [...]

 
According to recent studies, the myth that opioids does not produce impairments of human performance has been busted. Actually, it was not a surprise, considering that morphine acts directly on the central nervous system. Morphine proved to influence on critical flicker frequency and on the Maddox Wing test (a measure of deviation of the visual [...]

The primary use of morphine’s in medicine is as a pain killer. It’s activity on cells of the central nervous system resulting in pain relief and analgesia is well known for a very long time, although the explanation wasn’t that scientific in the past. However, the side effects of the morphine over the immune system [...]