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Morphine Reduces Testosterone Levels

A single shot of morphine has long lasting effects on testosterone levels within the brain and the plasma of male rats, found a new study carried out by Anna Maria Aloisi, MD, of the Department of Physiology – Section of Neuroscience and Applied Physiology at the University of Siena, Italy, the Sbarro Institute...

4 November 2010
04:40 GMT

Mammals May Be Able to Produce Morphine

Researchers have recently determined that lab mice can eliminate trace amounts of the painkiller morphine, if they are injected with precursor chemicals to the drug. The finding implies that mammals are capable of synthesizing the complex compound inside the body, which may help them cope with various types of pain. ...

27 April 2010
03:34 GMT

Synthetic Codeine and Morphine One Step Closer

Canadian scientists from the University of Calgary may have just found a solution to one of the most persistent problems in medicine today, and namely the availability of legal, tested painkillers. The investigators managed to successfully analyze the genome of the opioid poppy plant, the one that is currently used t...

15 March 2010
03:52 GMT

Morphine Patch Is Very Addictive

In their most recent study, Norwegian researchers have found that morphine patches, which were at first created to reduce and control painkiller consumption, actually create addiction in the very people who were trying to quit the drugs. One of the main reasons for this, experts at the Norwegian University of Science...

18 May 2009
05:00 GMT

Transplant Surgeon Accused of Hastening a Patient's Death

A San Francisco transplant surgeon faces criminal charges for the death of one of his patients, one Ruben Navarro, who was allegedly "pushed" to die by over-medication with morphine and a substance called Ativan, which is a sedative. Doctor Hootan Roozrokh was already cleared of two other felony charges earlier this ...

4 November 2008
08:12 GMT

Fallout 3 Will Be Released in Australia

Fallout 3 effective ban from sales in Australia is text book example of how games should not be treated by censors. The Office of Film and Literature Classification in Australia, known as the OFLC, only charged with rating games because the politicians could not tell that the new medium of expression has rather diff...

5 August 2008
03:13 GMT

Scientists Found How People Get Addicted to Heroine or Morphine

Morphine, heroine and other opioid drugs are the best known painkillers, but they come with a high risk: in many patients they provoke addiction, the body requiring gradually increasing amounts to ease pain. A new study presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and carried on in rats revealed th...

15 November 2007
04:10 GMT

Why Do Morphine and Heroin Get You Hooked with Just One Shot?

One dose and you are hooked up. Researchers have been investigating for a long time the powerful effect of the opioid drugs, like morphine or heroin, in search of a treatment for addiction. A new Brown University research found morphine to stop the synapse-strengthening in the brain, a phenomenon called long-term pot...

26 April 2007
08:49 GMT


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