what does morphine work for?

Question

it has medical uses, but what for?

for example reducing pain, or regenerating blood cells, ect.

Answer 1

Morphine, a narcotic, acts directly on the central nervous system. Besides relieving pain, it impairs mental and physical performance, relieves fear and anxiety, and produces euphoria. It also decreases hunger, inhibits the cough reflex, produces constipation, and usually reduces the sex drive; in women it may interfere with the menstrual cycle.

Morphine is highly addictive. Tolerance (the need for higher and higher doses to maintain the same effect) and physical and psychological dependence 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 withdrawal.

Today morphine is used medicinally for severe pain, cough suppression, and sometimes before surgery. It is seldom used illicitly except by doctors and other medical personnel who have access to the drug. It is injected, taken orally or inhaled, or taken through rectal suppositories. Methadone treatment has been useful in curing morphine addiction.

Answer 2

Morphine is an analgesic (pain reliever). We use it in anesthesia because it lasts longer than some of our other drugs, and we want some pain medicine on board when the patient wakes up.

We need to have different pain medicines available, because people react differently to drugs. Morphine is not a good choice in asthmatic people because it releases histamine, which can make asthma worse. However, it's less likely than dilaudid to dramatically lower the heart rate, so I'd use morphine in someone with a slow heartbeat and not the dilaudid.

Morphine is also used to treat pain associated with heart attacks.

We can give morphine in a variety of ways: intravenous, under the skin, in the muscle, or even inject it along with spinal or epidural medication.

Hope that helps.

Answer 3

Morphine is an analgesic reserved for pain in the severe category. It is pharmacologically the drug of choice for heart attacks, pulmonary embolus, flail chest or any other cause of direct cardiac compromise, because it effectively relieves pain, decreases peripheral resistance,(which decreases cardiac work) and maintains cardiac output. It is the drug of choice for amputations and many other traumas, due to effectiveness and short term of use. Many pain cocktails, used to treat pain in the dying, contain morphine. If they get addicted, So what? No, we are not ready to relegate morphine to museums or to the back shelf. Though it's addictiveness and potential for abuse are legendary, with controls, it still has a place in modern therapeutics.

Answer 4

Morphine was originally obtained from opium, the resin extracted from the poppy plant. The drug acts on several types of receptor that are widely found in the body. All drugs thatstimulate these receptors are called opioids, andmay be natural occurring substances, such asmorphine, or synthetic opioids made in thelaboratory such as oxycodone...

Answer 5

Usual route is Intravenous(IV) but there is Intramuscular(IM) and intermittent subcutaneous(SC) versions as well as transdermal and oral IM example would be your flu shot SC is injected in to subcutis which is the layer of fat underneath the dermis and the epidermis which is your skin. Transdermal would be a cream or patch Oral like Tylenol you would use Morphine Sulfate in a controlled released version

Answer 6

Its primary medical use is pain relief, it is one of the most powerful legal painkillers in the narcotic class. It is also on occasion used as a recreational drug, it is highly addictive if not used for an appropriate purpose. It is a derivative of opium.

Answer 7

It is a highly addictive, very powerful pain medicine. It has some benefit, but is very strictly controlled due to its potential for abuse. Many soldiers became addicted to morphine when it was used to treat their pain...
Dangerous stuff, strictly regulated for good reasons.

Answer 8

for severe pain relief...just received it in the hospital when I had a kidney stone attack..one of the worst pains known to man

Answer 9

reducing pain