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Opioid Drugs Finish Up Your Sex Life Addiction is not just only severe issue with opioid drugs. Opioid drugs have been regarded as the perfect painkillers, but with one price: your sex life. These chemicals vary from morphine and heroin to papaverine, noscapine, cocaine and ephedrine. Their name comes from the fact that opioid drugs bind to specific opi... 16 April 2008 14:06 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