Essays Tagged: "Morphine"
Heroin Abuse
d stop its growth. In 1803 the compound responsible for the painkilling effect was found and called Morphine. This discovery brought even more use of Opium. Finally in 1898 a chemist discovered diacet ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Acupuncture, A Chinese medical technique
simulates peripheral nerves in the muscles which send messages to the brain to release endorphins (morphine-like peptides in the brain). These natural chemicals then block the sending of painful mess ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Drug Abuse
e transcontinental railroad, brought the opium-smoking habit to the West Coast. Along with cocaine, morphine and other opiates were used freely in patent medicines and doctors' prescriptions, and many ... ors' prescriptions, and many people became addicted without realizing it. The indiscriminate use of morphine in treating wounded soldiers also produced many addicts. Addiction, which began among urban ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Drugs and their consequence.
the transcontinental railroad, brought the pium-smokinghabit to the West Coast. Along with cocaine, morphine and other opiates were used freely in patent medicines and doctors' prescriptions, and many ... ors' prescriptions, and many people became addicted without realizing it. The indiscriminate use of morphine in treating wounded soldiers also produced many addicts. Addiction, which began among urban ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
The Legalization Of Marijuana
legalize marijuana as medical drug? Which is proven to be less dangerous than heavy painkillers and morphine. It is possible to overdose on painkillers and morphine, while with Marijuana it is a fact ... ase of a death because someone had overdosed on marijuana(B). It is well known that painkillers and morphine contain Dopamine, a chemical which makes you believe you need that drug. Marijuana does not ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
The Vision of Mary HEaton Vorse, brief biography and my opinion
e failed as a mother to. Mary Heaton cured her self from severe alcoholism, and a drug addiction to morphine. Yet, she was able to stay very active in the labor movement and a strong supporter of wome ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
An analyzation of the symbolism and imagery in "Flanders Fields" by John McCrae.(World War One poem)
Flanders Fields" point to this fact. Some kinds of poppies can be used to derive opium, from which morphine can be made. Morphine is one of the strongest painkillers and was often used to put a wound ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I
What makes you happy.
in the brain.Discovered in 1975 endorphins are one of several substances in the brain that resemble morphine. These substances were referred to as opoids. The polypeptide endorphin contains thirty ami ... formed mostly by Tyrosine, an amino acid. The molecular structure of this chemical highly resembles morphine but as different chemical properties.Endorphins are believed to have four significant effec ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Heroin
orking at a German drug company called Bayer tried to make a pain killer twenty times stronger then morphine. He succeeded, and called this new drug 'heroin', which is a German word that means powerfu ... se you to go unconscious or even kill you. As soon as it enters the bloodstream, it is changed into morphine by the liver and starts to make analgesia, which is pain reduction. Seconds after the injec ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Pfizer
. In 1862 because of the Civil War painkillers were needed. This was the first time Pfizer produced morphine as well as other drugs. Doctors and soldiers in the civil war were grateful for Pfizer's de ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Write a research paper on euthanasia
r death. Indirect, active euthanasia this is defined as the use of means to relieve suffering (e.g. morphine) which may have the secondary effect of shortening life. The possibility that death might o ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Methadone
opioid analgesic that is primarily a mu-opioid agonist. It has actions and uses similar to those of morphine. It also has a depressant action on the cough centre and may be given to control intractabl ... d drugs, although prolonged use of methadone itself may result in dependence. They include codeine, morphine and heroin. In the brains of addicts, methadone prevents heroin or morphine from interactin ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
MARIJUANA:ILLEGAL DRUG OR MEDICAL MARVEL? Argument Synthesis paper...includes works cited page
evere nausea that often accompanies chemotherapy.Many advocates who are pro marijuana complain that morphine and cocaine are legal and are very dangerous drugs, which brings up the question: Why not l ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
Book review on The things they carried
ntangible, including guilt and fear, while others are specific physical objects, including matches, morphine, M-16 rifles, and M&M's candy. Tim O'Brian releases his fear, sadness, and anger felt d ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Drug dissolution from an immediate release vs. modified release preparation of ibuprofen.
r example, analgesics with a well established therapeutic effectiveness and safety profile, such as morphine, are widely employed in orally administered modified release forms in the management of chr ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
"A Long Day's Journey into Night" Character Analysis
orthless, James Tyrone is stingy and miserly, and to top it all off Mary Tyrone has an addiction to morphine. Each player in this work comes in conflict with the next and blames the other for all that ... te beautiful. Fate has been cruel to her, though, and she is cursed with an accidental addiction to morphine.Mary, in her youth, had dreams to become "a nun...or a concert pianist," but when she met J ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
"Richard Corey" research paper: Anaysis of poem
ought the family into bankruptcy over the next seven years. Edwin's brother Dean became addicted to morphine and went back home because of his health. Edwin was forced to leave Harvard due to the fami ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Drug Abuse as a Social Problem: A Look at the Conflict and Functionalist Perspectives
e substances were not extracted into drugs until the 19th century. Newly discovered substances like morphine, laudanum, and cocaine were completely unregulated and prescribed freely by physicians for ... ely by physicians for a wide variety of ailments. Wounded veterans returned home with their kits of morphine and hypodermic needles (History of Drug Abuse, n.d.) The use of illegal drugs is increasing ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Critically analyse the concept of addiction with reference to drug misuse.
n wide use throughout the globe. These were reprocessed and highly refined for potent forms such as morphine, heroin and cocaine. They had huge effects on symptoms - especially the opiates for pains a ... ribed as 'accidental or conscious overdosing' - 'chronic poisonings' or being dependent on opium or morphine. In the late 1960s the term addiction was used to describe a 'disease.' This was then repla ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
The reasons why teenagers use drugs.
the drug war of 1900, drugs have been a major problemin todays society. Use of drugs such as opium, morphine, and their derivativeswere quite commonplace in nineteenth century America. While most stud ... ay) it is actually surprisingly small even whensuch drugs were available over the counter. Cocaine, morphine, laudanum,and heroin were all available in drug stores and through the mail. Until the Pure ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs