Meet Norman, the no-morphine poppy
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Opium poppies can provide useful pharmaceuticals without making the addictive compounds in heroin and opium, an international team of scientists has shown.
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George Carlin, who has been pushing his book "When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?" has admitted himself into a treatment program. Carlin, 67, has been battling alcohol and painkiller abuse for a while.  He has decided to take time for himself ...
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Environmentally friendly flowers are a hard sell. After all, most people donât eat them.
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Traditional drugs have done little to help 39-year-old Angel Raich. Beset by a list of ailments that includes tumors in her brain, seizures, spasms and nausea, she has found comfort only in the marijuana that is prescribed by her doctor.
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âWe show, for the first time, we can deliver these potentially high-quality therapeutics to an animal.â Hans-Peter Vornlocher, Scientist, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals.
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Afghanistan's heroin-producing poppy crop set another record this season, despite intensified eradication efforts, the American ambassador said Tuesday.
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Living in Afghanistan, the world's unrivalled producer of heroin, Faqirullah has no problem finding drugs to feed his habit. What concerns him is getting the cash to buy them.
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With her prescription drugs totaling more than $550 a month, 70-year-old Virginia Norman often had to choose between taking her medications and paying her bills.
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Australian scientists have discovered  how a naturally morphine-free poppy blocks production of the  narcotic, in a finding that could lead to the development of  more effective drugs.
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In a mouse model of breast  cancer, the COX-2 inhibitor celecoxib (Celebrex) prevents  chronic morphine-induced effects on tumor growth without  compromising pain relief, scientists report.
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Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, the source of most of the opium and heroin on Europe&#39;s streets, was up sharply this year, reaching the highest levels in the
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By Steven Reinberg, HealthDay Reporter    HealthDayNews -- Morphine, a potent painkiller typically derived from the opium poppy plant, appears to be made by the human body as well.    Small amounts of morphine have been found in animal tissue before, but researchers had assumed these traces came from environmental contamination, such as a diet...
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Researchers have discovered a gene mutation which prevents otherwise healthy carriers from feeling pain.
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Tycho:  He came into work yesterday with a prescription for something that will alter his brain chemistry, which I thought was a big step for the man who refuses to take aspirin.  We've long canonized our respective lunacies, believing it is like some artistic sacrament that makes our bizarre endeavor possible.  We have relied upon them.  Or, at any rate, we did.
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Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, the source of most of the opium and heroin on Europe's streets, was up sharply this year.
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Australian researchers have discovered a natural variant of the opium poppy that produces powerful painkilling compounds but none of the addictive morphine and codeine.
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If you enjoy good food and don&#39;t like the idea of taking pills to reduce the risks of heart attack or stroke, it could be time to try the Polymeal.