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
Right away the poisons settled him down in a way that even the morphine did not.
Yet she did not, and Bartholomew telephoned to request that more morphine should be brought.
He then stole a Dosette box containing morphine, which is potentially fatal if taken without a prescription.
This, say researchers, may prove to be an advantage over the potentially addictive drugs such as morphine.
He made the telephone calls that were necessary, cancelling the message that requested morphine, informing an undertaker.
The idea is similar to the way in which an overdose of heroin or morphine is treated.
The boy was back in his room, drugged with morphine, sleeping peacefully for the first time in days.
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
He was also a prodigious user of pharmaceutical drugs, particularly Valium and morphine.
The team prescribed a small dose of morphine, which immediately eased her breathing.
She has to take morphine every day to try to control the pain.
Morphine will be replaced with a local anaesthetic stored in a small gadget.
Iran lies next door to Afghanistan, where most of the world's opium is produced, as well as morphine and hashish.
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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So every few hours, the staff will give the infants morphine to help them get their symptoms of withdrawal under control.
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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.
Eugene Hustion and his wife, Lottie, the "King and Queen of the Cokies, " weighed thirty pounds of cocaine and half as much morphine.
In addition, Dr Kelley identified long-lasting changes in rats' brain chemistry - similar to those caused by extended use of morphine or heroin.
Their symptoms included chattering teeth and the shakes - similar to those seen in people withdrawing from nicotine or morphine, according to researchers.
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.
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