Health Blog » Poppy fruit http://healthyone.org A Unique Health Blog with Unique Content Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:09:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Opium Abuse http://healthyone.org/opium-abuse/ http://healthyone.org/opium-abuse/#comments Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:04:58 +0000 admin http://healthyone.org/?p=28 Opioid analgesics (pain killers) are essential part of medical practice and have been part of medical practice and health care since 300 B.C. Opioid have disadvantage of overdose and dependency, that may arise from injudicious use. All opioids are capable of producing heroin like toxicity. In US alone there are more than one million opioid dependent individuals.

Morphine and codeine are the main opioid and are derived from milky juice of poppy fruit, papaver somniferous. Semi synthetic opioids includes, diacetylmorphine (heroin), oxycodone etc. Synthetic opioids include tramadol, pentazocine, pentanyl baprenorphine, propoxyphine ete.

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