What Are Some Stats for Morphine?

Question by Who’s to say…?: What are some stats for Morphine?
like addiction rate or anything like that, i cant really find anything…

please help

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Answer by psychic_jod
im not to sure what satisitcs you would like so i will give you what i can and hope it helps.

Morphine is highly addictive. Tolerance (the need for higher and higher doses to maintain the same effect) and physical and psychological addiction to Morphine develop quickly. Withdrawal from Morphine causes nausea, tearing, yawning, chills, and sweating lasting up to three days. Morphine crosses the placental barrier, and babies born to Morphine-using mothers go through Morphine withdrawal.

Opioid analgesics such as morphine are an essential part of cancer pain management and palliative care.
It will be recollected that during the past three years the Permanent Central Board and the Supervisory Body pointed out that the per capita consumption of diacetylmorphine in certain countries “had increased and was very high, although the 1931 Conference recommended the abolition or restriction of the use of this particularly dangerous drug
I am unsre to what sort of satisitcs you are after so ill give what information i can find.

SAMHSA’s Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) records an alarming increase in the rate of admissions for narcotic painkillers of 155% between 1995 and 2002. With the increase being most noticeable in the most rural areas and least noticeable in the large central metropolitan areas. This sheds a not too favorable light on any illusions of rural peace and tranquility. Pain reliever incidence increased from 1990 with 573,000 initiates to a staggering 2.5 million in 2001.
You may have unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when you stop using this medication after using it over a long period of time. Do not stop using morphine suddenly without first talking to your doctor. You may need to use less and less before you stop the medication completely.
Morphine addiction develops very rapidly when an individual continues to abuse the drug.
Morphine withdrawal symptoms reach peak intensity in 36 to 72 hours. Without treatment, the signs of morphine addiction withdrawal will run their course in 5 to 7 days, even though cravings for morphine may continue for months.

ill give you some sites to look at also to hlp iwth different satistics

Answer by [email protected]
the pharmacist told my daughter, who was on moriphine, that if at all possabe not to take them, they are very addictive, and u can get addicted very fast.

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