Search results for "Morphine" - New World Encyclopedia

somniferum). It contains up to 16 percent morphine, an opiate alkaloid, which ... or carry the opium alkaloids, especially morphine and codeine. This means ...

useful for extracting alkaloids (such as morphine) of pharmaceutical importance ... it is commercially used to extract morphine from poppies, scopolamine ...

by enhancing athletic performance. Morphine may be used medically as ... drugs include hydrocodone, oxycodone, morphine, and others; some opiates ...

He died September 28 (October 10), 1875, from a morphine overdose, which was prescribed for him as pain relieve from asthma, angina pectoris ...

Maritime Officers with 300lbs of smuggled morphine shipped in cylinders of ... psychoactive substance in opium—morphine. ====Heroin/Morphine==== ...

pain reliever 200 times more potent than morphine has stimulated research ... properties 200 times greater than morphine (Daly et al. 2000). This ...

developed a serious problem with alcohol, morphine and other painkillers. Much ... injected with Vitamin B12 and morphine. He left town in a Cadillac ...

at the age of two, and she became addicted to morphine as a result of Eugene's difficult birth. O'Neill was born in a Broadway hotel ...

they predicted the synthesis of sugar and morphine and other organic compounds. After this project, the two went their separate ways—Wöhler ...

is some kind of opiate, chemically related to morphine. As the days get shorter, the temperature changes, and food becomes scarce, HIT triggers hibernation ...

Major pharmaceuticals such as digoxin, morphine, and atropine have been traced to foxglove, opium, and belladonna, respectively. Ethnomedical ...

and other salicylates, narcotic drugs such as morphine, synthetic drugs with narcotic properties such as tramadol, and various others. ...

likely the result of a growing dependency on morphine and opium. Despite his growing weariness Spencer continued to write, and in 1858 he began ...

As a teenager, he had developed a morphine addiction while in a hospital after an automobile accident, and subsequently became addicted to heroin ...

test to distinguish heroin and morphine. Nitric acid is also used in school laboratories to perform experiments involving the testing of chloride ...

Edwin to a life long addiction to alcohol and morphine. The relationship was not a positive one, and it ended in divorce in 1919. But Dorothy would ...

notable nitrogen-containing drugs, such as morphine, are derived from plant alkaloids. Many alkaloids are known to have pharmacological effects, and ...

"… in spite of being dosed with morphine every day, his pain stays ... This was the beginning of his morphine addiction. Meanwhile in Munich ...

time and was also struggling with addiction to morphine (and other opiates). Many of his songs from the period—either directly or metaphorically—deal ...

painkiller 200 times more potent than morphine, offering promise in this area if the toxicity can be neutralized. Amphibians play an important ...

In 1934 Camus married Simone Hie, a morphine addict. The marriage, however, soon ended due to infidelity on both their parts. Throughout his ...

death of children with the injection of morphine, the information was allegedly ... warefare allocations), and the use of morphine as a mass extermination ...

The Salvation Army's main converts at first were alcoholics, morphine addicts, prostitutes, and other "undesirables" unwelcome ...

" Schur administered three doses of morphine over many hours that resulted ... Fleischl-Marxow to help him overcome a morphine addiction he had acquired ...

giving him a lethal injection of cocaine and morphine, both to prevent further strain on the family and so that the news of his death could be announced ...

to kill his six children by injecting them with morphine and then, when they were unconscious, crushing an ampule of cyanide in each of their mouths ...

or surgery) or giving a medication (such as morphine) to relieve pain, knowing that it may also result in death (principle of double effect). Passive ...

Damala began taking large quantities of morphine, and following Bernhardt ... Maître des Forges, in 1883. However, his morphine addiction continued to worsen ...

a painkiller 200 times more potent than morphine, is found in some species of poison dart frogs. Other chemicals isolated from the skin of frogs ...

advances. During this time, Burroughs began using morphine and quickly became addicted. He eventually sold heroin in Greenwich Village to support his habit. ...

tried to alleviate his symptoms with ether, morphine, and cocaine. Peirce's personal life also proved a grave handicap. His first wife, Harriet ...

GDP comes from opium, its two derivatives, morphine and heroin, as well as hashish production. Other challenges include budget sustainability, job ...