Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

When I came to this country in 1958, to be a dying patient in a medical hospital was a nightmare. You were put in the last room, furthest away from the nurses' station. You were full of pain, but they wouldn't give you morphine. Nobody told you that you were full of cancer and that it was understandable that you had pain and needed medication.

American Psychologist

Polly Toynbee

My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.

English Journalist

Carl Jung

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Swiss Psychologist

Alex Campbell

My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.

Canadian Politician

Derek Jarman

Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

British Director

Morphine is used legally in healthcare to relieve intense pain.

Medical Use

Morphine is a controlled medication, meaning it's regulated by law.

Controlled Substance

Morphine is not for minor aches; it's meant for intense, often post-surgical pain.

Severe Pain

Morphine has a high potential for addiction if it’s misused or taken without need.

Addiction Risk

Taking too much morphine can lead to overdose, which is potentially fatal.

Overdose Danger

Stopping morphine suddenly can cause withdrawal, with symptoms like shaking and sweating.

Withdrawal Symptoms

 to strut the shore side like a centaur on a conveyor belt. I'm trying to get this beach body, but there is salvation in snack closets, on licked plates of seconds, at the bottom of a pint of ice cream. I use Haagen Dazs as a morphine cylinder because she said my arms weren't strong enough to carry her.

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 And dopamine is generated, which gives us a little high and it kills pain. It's like a naturally produced morphine. Now, all of this passes under our conscious radar, which is why we conflate online activity with the real thing. But we do have evidence now, fresh evidence,

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 times stronger than morphine making it the most potent narcotic in clinical use i'm hoping really really hoping this guy knows what he's doing here the drug acts on natural opioid receptors or pleasure centers in the brain our bodies opioid receptors are found in the same

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 more effective than morphemes it's true there is a video game today that treats pain more effectively than morphine you're wondering how it works well fMRI studies show that players become so cognitively absorbed in the virtual environment that they are neurologically

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 staring at a ceiling on a morphine drip for for many months and then I just reached a point where I got to get off these drugs and got off everything and I remember this doctor coming in my room and saying you better think about what you want to do with your life now

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 and everybody follows the rules. They are not optional, and they're not optional for bigger molecules either, like these three. This is our favorite vitamin sitting next to our favorite drug, and morphine is one of the most important stories in medical history.

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 a neurotransmitter that modulates our moods. This effectively pushes more of it into the neural network. Meanwhile, painkillers, like morphine, raise levels of serotonin and noradrenaline, which regulate energy, arousal, alertness, and pleasure.

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 morphine, was identified and isolated for medical use. Morphine, codeine, and other substances made directly from the poppy are called opiates. In the 20th century, drug companies created a slew of synthetic substances similar to these opiates,

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 might have been the best outcome. And lying in intensive care, facing the prospect of being blind and paralyzed, high on morphine, I was trying to make sense of what was going on.

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 Department is poised to raid a suspected morphine dealers home she's with her boyfriend who is potentially armed and dangerous this one headquarters got