Morphine is a major component of OPIUM, a product of the poppy plant (PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM or P. album). Named after Morpheus, the Greek god of sleep, morphine is a potent ANALGESIC (painkiller) that is widely used for moderate to severe PAIN. Morphine...

The principle active ingredient found in OPIUM, the extract of the poppy plant. Morphine is named after the Greek god Morpheus, the god of dreams. Morphine, a NARCOTIC ANALGESIC (see ANALGESIA; NARCOTICS), is a potent opiate drug that has a number of...

Morphine is the most effective naturally occurring compound used for the relief of pain in medicine and surgery. It also induces sleep and produces euphoria. The active ingredient in opium, from which it is derived, morphine is highly addictive with...

Morphine is a major component of opium, a product of the poppy plant. Named after Morpheus, the Greek god of sleep, morphine is a powerful analgesic (painkiller). Doctors frequently prescribe it to relieve moderate to severe pain, especially in cancer...

Morphine (INN) (pronounced /ˈmɔrfiːn/) is a highly-potent opiate analgesic drug and is the principal active agent in opium and the prototypical opioid. Like other opiates, e.g., diacetylmorphine (heroin), morphine acts directly on the central...

BOB GROVES, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 07-11-1994 A NEW CALL FOR MORPHINE -- U.S. GUIDELINES NOW PROMOTE IT FOR CANCER PAIN By BOB GROVES, Staff Writer Date: 07-11-1994, Monday Section: LIFESTYLE Edition: All Editions -- 3 Star, 2 Star P,...

Morphine with Wooden Leg and Trona at the Paradise Tuesday night. There was a time when it seemed Morphine should play nowhere but the very intimate nightspots where it first developed its "low rock." So it's nice that even though Morphine...

A prominent pain-management doctor accused of prescribing high doses of drugs such as morphine and OxyContin to patients went on trial for a second time Monday.William E. Hurwitz, 61, was convicted in 2004 of drug trafficking, among other charges, and sentenced to 25 years in...

A Spanish anesthesiologist with hepatitis C was sentenced to prison Tuesday for infecting 275 people with the virus by injecting them with morphine from the same needles he used to feed his own addiction.In sentencing Juan Maeso to 1,933 years in prison, the Valencia Provincial...