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 [...]

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 [...]

 
The history of morphine goes far back in the past. In the Byzantine times was circulating among alchemists an elixir based on opium, but it is supposed that the specific formula was lost during the Ottoman conquest of Contantinople. A little bit later, in 1522, Paracelsus made reference to “laudanum”, also an elixir based on [...]

 
Synthesized from morphine, heroin is an illegal drug and a medical pain-killer. Discovered in 1874 by C. R. Alder Wright, a derivative of the opium, heroin is a dangerous substance with high addictive potential. There is a huge traffic of heroin, Afghanistan producing 87% of the world’s heroin.
On the street is known as “H”, “smack”, [...]

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