And Pharmacia's new injectable COX-2 inhibitor, called Dynastat, could supplement or even supersede morphine.
The colonel came over and asked the medic if he could sedate the man with morphine.
It was then he had a flashback to work he'd done years earlier on morphine-related compounds.
Premature twins died following a morphine overdose at Stafford Hospital, a disciplinary hearing was told.
BBC: Stafford Hospital nurse accused over twins morphine error
Yet she did not, and Bartholomew telephoned to request that more morphine should be brought.
He made the telephone calls that were necessary, cancelling the message that requested morphine, informing an undertaker.
The specialist in cosmetic medicine, who is based in Witten, Germany, had admitted confusing morphine with another drug.
Mrs Weaver, from Newbury, said she was contacted by the Thatcham hospital after her husband was given morphine.
But if you are and take codeine, you convert much more of it to morphine than in most people.
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An inquest found the morphine overdose had "played a part in their deaths".
BBC: Stafford Hospital nurse accused over twins morphine error
It turns out that those who can't turn codeine into morphine lack an enzyme that is controlled by their genes.
Most of the painkilling effects of codeine are due to some of it being converted to the strong opioid analgesic, morphine.
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They had brought back the morphine for his pain, so he was rarely awake, and was not very happy when he was.
In addition, Dr Kelley identified long-lasting changes in rats' brain chemistry - similar to those caused by extended use of morphine or heroin.
At an inquest into his death, it was found that he had not been given prescribed medications, including morphine, to help with the pain.
In the fourth experiment, researchers gave 21 participants two infusions of a morphine-like drug while they were being scanned and having the heat tests.
However, a small percentage of people are born with a single-letter change in their DNA for this enzyme that causes the codeine-to-morphine reaction go faster.
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Suffice it to say, then, that Professor Mike was in a whole lot of pain, at least until they gave him a dose of morphine.
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Mrs Thompson denies a series of charges, including failing to take the clinical lead of nursing care in relation to the administration of the morphine.
BBC: Stafford Hospital nurse accused over twins morphine error
The most common mistakes involved painkillers like paracetamol, morphine and diamorphine.
Dr Sharma said the new seed has no trace of any of the natural chemicals which cause a narcotic effect - namely, morphine, codeine and narcotine.
Last year he also called on the UK government to licence the opium poppy trade in Afghanistan, to help combat a world shortage in the pain-killing drug morphine.
But the companies focus on very different areas: Endo has stayed focused on powerful pain drugs, including its new entrant Opana, which is an extended release morphine formulation.
There's a hysterical scene where both McAlary and his editor pump up their morphine drips while both at the hospital and another funny bit about the Atkins' diet.
"The problem is the side effects of morphine, " Buchheit said.
An inquest into his death at Harrogate Magistrates Court in April 2012 found he had died of an accidental overdose of morphine, which he had been prescribed as a painkiller.
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The other 90% of the population who take the medicine are able to break codeine down in their cells to make morphine and hence receive a significant amount of pain relief.
But Evans who had depression and a personality disorder found it difficult to cope and considered taking her own life by jumping off her balcony and overdosing on Mr Ballinger's morphine tablets.
The urge to drink or take drugs is, neurochemically speaking, linked to endorphins (natural morphine-like molecules) or dopamine, a neurotransmitter that is involved in bits of the brain that control reward behaviour.
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