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http://www.hospicenet.org/html/pain_myths.html
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http://www.everydayhealth.com/drugs/morphine

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How Morphine is Administered by:
-Intravenous Injection (For a patient that is in the hospital or any medical setting that controls your usage of morphine) (Directly into a vein.)
-Smoking/Inhaling
-Injection
-Snorting
And
-Oral/anal ingestion

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Commercial:
-MS Contin
-Morphine Sulfate ER
-Kadian
-Roxanol
Street Names:
-Miss Emma
-Ms.Em
-Black Mollies
-Gods Medicine
-Aunti
TNT
-Tango and Cash
-Dance Fever
-Murder 8
-Goodfella
-Durarmorph
-M
-Monkey
-White Stuff
Aunti Em
Morph
-Drone

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Morphine is a highly addictive, dangerous drug that is often prescribed to patients who are suffering from severe pain associated with cancer or serious injury. This opiate is often abused on the streets by users who are addicted to opiates and in seek of the prolific high that comes from repeated use and abuse. Unfortunately, morphine street names such as Miss Emma and Ms. Em allow users to openly discuss the drug in front of others without really giving way to the fact that they actually talking about drug use.

Many of the morphine street names that users openly use are related to the color of the pills when morphine is prescribed. Generally, the pills are available in red, blue or black; the colors vary based on the level of the active ingredient found in the medication. As such, morphine street names often refer to "black mollies" or "black pill" and similar versions of lingo that do not openly state morphine but those who regularly abuse the drug on the streets of course know the lingo and are on the same page.

Street Names Related to Liquid Morphine

Often times, liquid morphine is prescribed to patients who have difficulty swallowing pills. According to the DEA, many morphine street names such as "Gods Medicine" or "Aunti" may refer to either the liquid morphine or to the pills. The following street names for morphine describe liquid form:

Additional Morphine Street Names

Morphine street names are often used interchangeably or with street names that describe other opiates such as Roxanol or Demerol. This is because many people who abuse morphine will happily accept Demerol or similar drugs in the place of the morphine if such cannot be found at the time when they are wanting to get high. You may hear any of the following street names for morphine:

Really, the number of potential street names for morphine is only limited to the user who is trying to discuss the drug around others. Unfortunately, when teens and adults alike are talking about drugs, they can be very creative and may be openly discussing potentially deadly drugs and activities around you when you don't even realize it.

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Morphine is a highly addictive, dangerous drug that is often prescribed to patients who are suffering from severe pain associated with cancer or serious injury. This opiate is often abused on the streets by users who are addicted to opiates and in seek of the prolific high that comes from repeated use and abuse.

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-Morphine is used to treat moderate to severe pain.
-Morphine can slow or stop your breathing.
-To much morphine can result in unconsciousness, cardiac arrest, suffocation, due to lack of breathing and coma, even death.

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Morphine sulfate is a prescription drug used to treat moderate to severe acute or chronic pain. It's sold under several brand names, including Roxanol, Kadian, and Avinza.

Morphine is part of a class of drugs called opiate (narcotic) analgesics, or opioid agonists, which block the transmission of pain signals to the brain by binding to nervous system proteins called opioid receptors.

Morphine is also sometimes prescribed "off label" to treat pain in hospitalized children.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first approved morphine in 1941. Multiple companies, including King Pharmaceuticals, Hospria, and Roxane Laboratories, manufacture the drug under different brand names.

Morphine frequently pops up in the news because of accidental overdoses - lawsuits over fatal overdoses are generally directed at the pharmacies that made the drug or the clinics that prescribed it.

In 2008, KV Pharmaceutical Co. fired then-CEO and chairman Marc Hermelin for failing to take proper action to prevent the distribution of oversized versions of the company's Ethex morphine pills, some of which had up to double the indicated dosage.

In 2011, after Hermelin pleaded guilty to violating drug-labeling laws, he was sentenced to 30 days in jail and forced to pay nearly $2 million in fines.

Morphine Abuse and Withdrawal

As with other opioid agonists, morphine carries a risk of abuse, misuse, and addiction, particularly for people with a personal or family history of substance abuse.

Addiction often results in various drug-seeking tactics, such as calling or visiting emergency rooms near the end of office hours, continually "losing" prescriptions, and "doctor shopping," or trying to obtain additional prescriptions from other physicians.

Even if you don't abuse morphine, you may become physically dependent on the drug and suffer withdrawal symptoms if you suddenly stop taking it.

Withdrawal symptoms include:

Teary eyes and runny nose

Irritability and anxiety

Sweating and chills

Restlessness, yawning, and difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep

Back, muscle, or joint pain

Nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, diarrhea, and stomach cramps

Weakness

Quickened heartbeat and breathing

Morphine Warnings

You shouldn't use morphine if you have:

A known sensitivity to morphine

Respiratory depression (slowed breathing), bronchial asthma, or an abnormal amount of carbon dioxide in your body, and are in an unmonitored setting or without resuscitative equipment

Paralytic ileus, an intestinal obstruction caused by paralyzed intestinal muscles

Morphine may cause respiratory depression. The risk of respiratory depression and other potentially fatal issues - including low blood pressure, profound sedation, coma, and death - increase when morphine is used in concert with central nervous system (CNS) depressants, such as sedatives, hypnotics, or other opioids.

The risk of respiratory depression with morphine is also greater for older people, people who are debilitated, or who already suffer from respiratory problems.

The oral solution of morphine (Roxanol) with the highest concentration (100 milligrams per 5 milliliters) should be taken only by people who are opioid tolerant or are used to the effects of opioids; the same is true for Avinza capsules containing 90 milligrams (mg) or more.

Morphine may cause severe low blood pressure in people who have low blood volume, anemia, or who were given general anesthetics or phenothiazines.

If you have a head injury or increased intracranial pressure, taking morphine may exaggerate the drug's respiratory depressant effects. It may also further increase intracranial pressure.

Using morphine when you have bile or pancreatic duct diseases may cause sphincter spasms and reduce biliary and pancreatic secretions.

Tell your doctor if you have or have ever had severe kidney or liver problems, low blood pressure, Addison's disease, hypothyroidism, prostate enlargement, seizures, difficulty swallowing, or urinary problems.

Pregnancy and Morphine

Morphine is an FDA Pregnancy Category C drug, meaning that animal studies have shown an "adverse" effect on the fetus, and harm to a woman's fetus cannot be ruled out.

Because of this, the drug should only be given to pregnant women if the potential benefits outweigh the potential risk.

Morphine should also not be given to women before delivery, or to nursing mothers, as it both crosses the placenta and is excreted in breast milk, causing potential harm to newborn and breastfeeding infants.

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Morphine (Roxanol) - Side Effects, Dosage, Interactions - Drugs

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Morphine sulfate is a prescription drug used to treat moderate to severe acute or chronic pain. It's sold under several brand names, including Roxanol, Kadian, and Avinza. Morphine is part of a class of drugs called opiate (narcotic) analgesics, or opioid agonists, which block the transmission of pain signals to the brain by binding to nervous system proteins called opioid receptors.

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Who is most likely to resort in the use of Morphine?

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Who is most likely to resort in the use of Morphine?

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-People who have addiction struggles (Genetic/Inherited)
-People who are curious about the drug
-People who are looking to relax and have pleasure
-People who are diagnosed with depression
-People with hyperactivity
-People who has stress and anxiety.
-People who have loneliness

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1.Abdominal or stomach pain.
2.Blurred vision.
3.Confusion.
4.Loss of consciousness
5.Low blood pressure or pulse.
6.Skin rash.
7.Weight loss.

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1.Many Morphine deaths are the result of overdose. Users do not realize or understand when they have taken too much.
2.Morphine is still used to treat severe pain. It is used by the military and in hospitals and should never be used from the streets.
3.Users can develop a dependence on morphine. They use it in order to feel normal.
4. Morphine addicts will often relapse while in recovery. Addicts may have to go into treatment several times before success is realized.
5.Abusers of Morphine want the "rush" or "high" that the drug produces.

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Morphine Addiction and Substance Abuse Video

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http://AddictionSearch.com - Morphine Addiction & Morphine Abuse. Call our Recovery Hotline 800-303-2938 Toll-Free 24/7 to discover the best treatment options for you. Morphine addiction & abuse can turn into a serious situation, as Morphine is a powerful opiate. There is help available if you or a loved one finds yourself having a problem with Morphine.

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1.Is offered to patients only when death is imminent.
2.People who take morphine will be addicted.
3.Morphine must be given by injection.
4.People who take morphine die sooner because morphine cause them to stop breathing.
5.People who take morphine will become so sedate (sleepy) that they can't function.

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Morphine is used to treat moderate and severe problems for the treatment of pain, not use on as-needed basis for pain. Not treated for short -term pain. Morphine is used to treat severe and long-lasting pain because it is a type of narcotic. People (or rather doctors) use Morphine for medical purposes, other use Morphine because it is an addicting drug. It's buzz is like heroine that's why people abuse the use of Morphine

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Generic Name: morphine (MOR feen)
Brand Names: Arymo ER, Kadian, MorphaBond ER, MS Contin

Medically reviewed: October 5, 2017

What is morphine?

Morphine is an opioid pain medication. An opioid is sometimes called a narcotic.

Morphine is used to treat moderate to severe pain. Short-acting formulations are taken as needed for pain.

The extended-release form of morphine is for around-the-clock treatment of pain. This form of morphine is not for use on an as-needed basis for pain.

Important information

You should not take morphine if you have severe asthma or breathing problems, a blockage in your stomach or intestines, or a bowel obstruction called paralytic ileus.

Morphine can slow or stop your breathing, and may be habit-forming. MISUSE OF THIS MEDICINE CAN CAUSE ADDICTION, OVERDOSE, OR DEATH, especially in a child or other person using the medicine without a prescription.
Taking this medicine during pregnancy may cause life-threatening withdrawal symptoms in the newborn. Fatal side effects can occur if you use this medicine with alcohol, or with other drugs that cause drowsiness or slow your breathing.
Before taking this medicine

You should not take this medicine if you have ever had an allergic reaction to morphine or other narcotic medicines, or if you have:

Do not use morphine if you have used an MAO inhibitor in the past 14 days. A dangerous drug interaction could occur. MAO inhibitors include isocarboxazid, linezolid, methylene blue injection, phenelzine, rasagiline, selegiline, tranylcypromine, and others.

To make sure morphine is safe for you, tell your doctor if you have ever had:

any type of breathing problem or lung disease;

a head injury, brain tumor, or seizures;

a drug or alcohol addiction, or mental illness;

urination problems;

liver or kidney disease;

problems with your gallbladder, pancreas, or thyroid; or

if you use a sedative like Valium (diazepam, alprazolam, lorazepam, Ativan, Klonopin, Restoril, Tranxene, Versed, Xanax, and others).

Some medicines can interact with morphine and cause a serious condition called serotonin syndrome. Be sure your doctor knows if you also take stimulant medicine, opioid medicine, herbal products, or medicine for depression, mental illness, Parkinson's disease, migraine headaches, serious infections, or prevention of nausea and vomiting. Ask your doctor before making any changes in how or when you take your medications.

If you use morphine while you are pregnant your baby could become dependent on the drug. This can cause life-threatening withdrawal symptoms in the baby after it is born. Babies born dependent on habit-forming medicine may need medical treatment for several weeks. Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant.

Do not breast-feed while taking morphine. This medicine can pass into breast milk and cause drowsiness, breathing problems, or death in a nursing baby.

How should I use morphine?

Take morphine exactly as prescribed by your doctor. Follow all directions on your prescription label. Morphine can slow or stop your breathing, especially when you start using this medicine or whenever your dose is changed. Never use this medicine in larger amounts, or for longer than prescribed. Tell your doctor if the medicine seems to stop working as well in relieving your pain.

Morphine may be habit-forming. Never share this medicine with another person, especially someone with a history of drug abuse or addiction. MISUSE OF NARCOTIC MEDICINE CAN CAUSE ADDICTION, OVERDOSE, OR DEATH, especially in a child or other person using the medicine without a prescription. Selling or giving away morphine is against the law.

Stop taking all other around-the-clock narcotic pain medications when you start taking morphine.

Do not crush, chew, or break an extended-release tablet. Swallow it whole to avoid exposure to a potentially fatal dose.

To make swallowing easier, you may open the extended-release capsule and sprinkle the medicine into a spoonful of applesauce. Swallow right away without chewing. Do not save the mixture for later use.

Measure liquid medicine with the dosing syringe provided, or with a special dose-measuring spoon or medicine cup. If you do not have a dose-measuring device, ask your pharmacist for one.

Do not stop using morphine suddenly, or you could have unpleasant withdrawal symptoms. Ask your doctor how to safely stop using this medicine.

Never crush or break a tablet or capsule to inhale the powder or mix it into a liquid to inject the drug into your vein. This practice has resulted in death with the misuse of morphine and similar prescription drugs.

Store at room temperature, away from heat, moisture, and light. Keep track of your medicine. Morphine is a drug of abuse and you should be aware if anyone is using your medicine improperly or without a prescription.

Do not keep leftover pills or liquid. Ask your pharmacist where to locate a drug take-back disposal program. If there is no take-back program, flush any unused pills or liquid medicine down the toilet.

See also: Dosage Information (in more detail)

What happens if I miss a dose?

Morphine is sometimes taken only once per day, and sometimes 2 or 3 times per day. Since this medicine is used for pain, you are not likely to miss a dose. If you do miss a dose, take the medicine as soon as you remember. Then take your next dose as follows:

If you take morphine 3 times per day: Take your next dose 8 hours after taking the missed dose.

If you take morphine 2 times per day: Take your next dose 12 hours after taking the missed dose.

If you take morphine 1 time per day: Take your next dose 24 hours after taking the missed dose.

Do not take extra medicine to make up a missed dose. Do not take more than your prescribed dose in a 24-hour period.

What happens if I overdose?

Seek emergency medical attention or call the Poison Help line at 1-800-222-1222. A morphine overdose can be fatal, especially in a child or other person using the medicine without a prescription. Overdose symptoms may include slow breathing and heart rate, severe drowsiness, muscle weakness, cold and clammy skin, pinpoint pupils, and fainting.

What should I avoid while using morphine?

Do not drink alcohol. Dangerous side effects or death could occur.

This medication may impair your thinking or reactions. Avoid driving or operating machinery until you know how morphine will affect you. Dizziness or severe drowsiness can cause falls or other accidents.

Morphine side effects

Get emergency medical help if you have signs of an allergic reaction to morphine: hives; difficult breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.

Like other opioid medicines, morphine can slow your breathing. Death may occur if breathing becomes too weak. A person caring for you should seek emergency medical attention if you have slow breathing with long pauses, blue colored lips, or if you are hard to wake up.

Call your doctor at once if you have:

slow heart rate, sighing, weak or shallow breathing;

chest pain, fast or pounding heartbeats;

extreme drowsiness, feeling like you might pass out; or

low cortisol levels - nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, dizziness, worsening tiredness or weakness.

Seek medical attention right away if you have symptoms of serotonin syndrome, such as: agitation, hallucinations, fever, sweating, shivering, fast heart rate, muscle stiffness, twitching, loss of coordination, nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea.

Morphine is more likely to cause breathing problems in older adults and people who are severely ill, malnourished, or otherwise debilitated.

Long-term use of opioid medication may affect fertility (ability to have children) in men or women. It is not known whether opioid effects on fertility are permanent.

Common morphine side effects may include:

This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.

See also: Side effects (in more detail)

Morphine dosing information
Usual Adult Dose for Pain:
The following dosing recommendations can only be considered suggested approaches to what is actually a series of clinical decisions over time in the management of the pain of each individual patient.

Immediate release tablets:
Opioid naive:
Initial dose: 15 to 30 mg orally every 4 hours as needed

Oral solution:
Opioid naive:
Initial dose: 10 to 20 mg orally every 4 hours as needed

Comments:
-Oral solution: Opioid naive patients should be initiated on 10 mg per 5 mL or 20 mg per 5 mL strengths. Opioid-tolerant patients that have already been titrated to a stable analgesic regimen using lower strengths of morphine may be initiated on the 100 mg per 5 mL (20 mg/mL).

Extended-release oral:
Different extended-release products are not bioequivalent. Conversion from one extended-release product to the same total daily dose of another extended-release product may lead to either excessive sedation at peak or inadequate analgesia at trough. Individual product information should be consulted before prescribing and the dosage should be adjusted to the individual patient.

Opioid naive:
Initial dose: 30 mg orally every 24 hours

Opioid tolerant:
Dose should be taken 1 to 2 times daily depending upon the product prescribed.

Suppository:
10 to 20 mg rectally every 4 hours needed

Subcutaneous/IM:
Initial dose: 10 mg every 4 hours as needed
Dose range: 5 to 20 mg every 4 hours as needed

IV:
-For relief of pain and as preanesthetic:
Initial dose: 4 to 10 mg every 4 hours administered slowly over 4 to 5 minutes
Dose range: 5 to 15 mg
Daily dose range: 12 to 120 mg
Alternate dose: 2 to 10 mg/70 kg of body weight
-Acute myocardial infarction:
Initial dose: 4 to 8 mg
Maintenance dose: 2 to 8 mg every 4 to 15 minutes as needed

Severe chronic pain associated with terminal cancer:
-Continuous IV Infusion: Prior to initiation of the infusion (in concentrations between 0.2 to 1 mg/mL), a loading dose of 15 mg or higher of morphine sulfate may be administered by IV push to alleviate pain.
-IV patient controlled analgesia or subcutaneous patient controlled analgesia:
1 to 2 mg injected 30 minutes after a standard IV dose of 5 to 20 mg. The lockout period is 6 to 15 minutes.

Epidural:
Initial dose: 5 mg in the lumbar region may provide satisfactory pain relief for up to 24 hours. If adequate pain relief is not achieved within one hour, careful administration of incremental doses of 1 to 2 mg at intervals sufficient to assess effectiveness may be given.
Maximum dose: 10 mg per 24 hr

Intrathecal:
-Dosage is usually one-tenth that of epidural dosage
-Initial dose: 0.2 to 1 mg may provide satisfactory pain relief for up to 24 hours. Repeated intrathecal injections are not recommended.
Usual Pediatric Dose for Pain:
-The following dosing recommendations can only be considered suggested approaches to what is actually a series of clinical decisions over time in the management of the pain of each individual patient.
-Safety and efficacy of this drug in neonates have not been established. Opiate agonists should not be used in premature neonates since the drugs cross the immature blood-brain barrier more readily than in the mature barrier producing disproportionate respiratory depression. Opiates should be administered with caution and in monitored dosages to infants and small children since they may be relatively more sensitive to opiates on a body weight basis.

-Subcutaneous: 0.1 to 0.2 mg per kg as needed. Not to exceed 15 mg per dose.
-IV: 50 to 100 mcg (0.05 to 0.1 mg) per kg, administered very slowly. Not to exceed 10 mg per dose.
Usual Pediatric Dose for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome:
Less than 1 month:
WEIGHT-BASED DOSING: 0.04 mg/kg orally every 3 to 4 hours
Maximum dose: 0.2 mg/kg

SYMPTOM-BASED DOSING (Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome [NAS] Score):
-NAS Score 9 to 12; Dose: 0.04 mg orally every 4 hours
-NAS Score 13 to 16; Dose: 0.08 mg orally every 4 hours
-NAS Score 17 to 20; Dose: 0.12 mg orally every 4 hours
-NAS Score 21 to 24; Dose: 0.16 mg orally every 4 hours
-NAS Score greater than 25; Dose: 0.2 mg orally every 4 hours

WEANING: After 48 hours of Clinical Stability
-Reduce dose by 10% every 24 to 48 hours
-Cease therapy when dose is 0.15 mg/kg/day

Comments:
-Approximately 60% to 80% of neonates with NAS may not respond to nonpharmacologic treatment and will require medication.
-The optimal pharmacologic treatment approach continues to be studied, however, oral morphine has been commonly used for this purpose.
-Pharmacologic treatment is initiated/titrated/weaned as part of an overall treatment strategy based on neonatal abstinence scores (e, g. Finnegan scores).
-The Finnegan scoring system has been standardized for use in term infants; its use in preterm or older infants should be considered not standardized; additionally, significant intra-observer variability has been documented.

Use: For the pharmacologic treatment of neonatal abstinence syndrome in accordance with treatment protocols developed by neonatology experts.

What other drugs will affect morphine?

Narcotic (opioid) medication can interact with many other drugs and cause dangerous side effects or death. Be sure your doctor knows if you also use:

other narcotic medications - opioid pain medicine or prescription cough medicine;

drugs that make you sleepy or slow your breathing - a sleeping pill, muscle relaxer, sedative, tranquilizer, or antipsychotic medicine; or

drugs that affect serotonin levels in your body - medicine for depression, Parkinson's disease, migraine headaches, serious infections, or prevention of nausea and vomiting.

This list is not complete. Other drugs may interact with morphine, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal products. Not all possible interactions are listed in this medication guide.

Further information

Remember, keep this and all other medicines out of the reach of children, never share your medicines with others, and use morphine only for the indication prescribed.

Always consult your healthcare provider to ensure the information displayed on this page applies to your personal circumstances.
Medical Disclaimer

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Generic Name: morphine (MOR feen) Brand Names: Arymo ER, Kadian, MorphaBond ER, MS Contin Medically reviewed: October 5, 2017 Morphine is an opioid pain medication. An opioid is sometimes called a narcotic. Morphine is used to treat moderate to severe pain. Short-acting formulations are taken as needed for pain.