The Side-Effects of Morphine

No medicine is completely without side-effects. No matter how organic, how natural, how “herbal”, how supposedly safe a medicine is, there is always the possibility of an adverse effect because each patient is different and can show a reaction to the drug which has not been seen in the general population. We call this...

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Addiction, Physicial Dependence, Tolerance…..Are They The Same?

Carlo is a very healthy 26 year-old young professional who started taking ecstasy just out of curiosity. He liked the feeling and started taking it more frequently. At present, Carlo is taking the drug on a regular basis and experiences cravings. Kenneth is a 50 year old patient who experienced an accident a year ago. He had to...

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Be Not Afraid…….Of Morphine

A woman came to my clinic for second opinion. She is diagnosed with recurrent breast cancer and she is experiencing moderate to severe cancer pain. Her doctor already prescribed her morphine but she said that it only gave her relief for a few days but the pain has now returned. I then asked her about the dose and frequency of her...

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