It's for a report at school. I know morphine is a pain killer and heroine is a drug, but the other differences I don't know. So if you could help me out, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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You should google this one, but here's an interesting part \nfrom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin \n\nManufacturing\n\nHeroin is produced for the black market through opium refinement processes. Unlike drugs such as LSD, the production of which requires considerable expertise in chemistry and access to constituents which are now tightly controlled, the refinement of the first three grades of heroin from opium is a relatively simple process requiring only moderate technical know-how and common chemicals. The final grade of heroin favored in the west is more difficult to produce and involves a potentially dangerous chemical procedure.\n\nFirst morphine is isolated from the crude opium (through being dissolved in water, reacted with lime fertilizer such that it precipates out, and then reacted again with ammonia; what is left is then mechanically filtered to yield a final product of morphine weighing about 90% less than the original quantity of opium). The morphine is reacted with acetic anhydride — a chemical also used in the production of aspirin — in the complicated five-step process used by most refineries in the Golden Triangle. The first step is to cook the morphine at 85°C (185°F) for six hours with an equivalent weight of acetic anhydride. In the second, a treatment of water and hydrochloric acid then purifies the product moderately. When the chemists add sodium carbonate, the particulates settle. Step four involves the heroin being heated in a mixture of alcohol and activated charcoal until the alcohol evaporates. The fifth step is optional, as it only changes the heroin into a finer white powder, more easily injectable; this so-called "no. 4 heroin" is principally exported to the Western markets. In this last, most dangerous step, the heroin (after being dissolved in alchohol), precipates out in tiny white flakes when a mixture of ether and hydrochloric acid is injected; this step is dangerous due to the fact that ether may explode, leveling or severely damaging the refinery (as has happened to a number of such facilities).\n\nThe purity of the extracted morphine determines in large part the quality of the resulting heroin. Most black market heroin is highly impure due to contaminants left after refinement of opium into morphine which then remain in the final product; even if the final product is in the upper range of purity (80 - 99% pure), when the final product reaches the addict, it typically has been cut multiple times, and its purity is down to less than 5%.
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That depends on the actual drug or combination of drugs being taken.  Different drugs will have different long term effects.  If you're writing a book, I suggest you learn how to do research instead of asking people on a forum.  The more detail you research yourself, the better your story will be.
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"Chasing in the Dragon" is an ancient term for heroin or opium usage; now, it is primarily used for free-basing heroin, though the term is for heroin use of any type. \n\nIt comes from Ancient Oriental terminology, and "peaked" in the era of British occupation in China, in the "opium dens". \n\nVERY, VERY DANGEROUS drug!! I am not a "prude" but this drug is 1] completely addictive and 2] one of highest fatality from overdose- and unsupervised "withdrawl". \n\njcm
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Tylenol #3 contains codeine.   \nLortab 7.5 contains hydrocodone.\n\nLortab is much stronger.
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I agree with Isle, she would have to want to stop using drugs.  Sometimes people don't realize they are acting the way they do when they are an addict.  My mother used to take vicodin like candy for her back and was the meanest person in the world when taking them.  She didn't realize, so we tape recorded her and played it back for her to listen to, it was a wake up call for her.  If she's not vocally abusive to you, there's not much you can do because if you cut and pasted what she said, she would say you could alter it to make her look bad.  I was on narcotics but I wasn't mean, it just made me sleepy.
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They do use fentanyl.  It's called "Duragesic patch" and is applied topically.  As far as I know, fentanyl is not available orally.  Duragesic patch is for long acting pain, and oral morphine may be required in addition.  Plus, morphine is much cheaper than fentanyl patch.  That may be the real answer to your question.
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recovery is fast if you're otherwise healthy.  Take as little pain medicine as you need to be comfortable and walk around (because morphine will make you seriously constipated).  Take a bit more at bedtime, you'll need rest to recover.
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I know you weren't looking for drug answers, but I'm a pharmacist, so I had to pipe up.  Traditional pain relievers (acetaminophen, NSAIDS, morphine, etc.) aren't effective, but newer meds that are more effective include oral amitryptiline, cyclobenzaprine, gabapentin (Neurontin), pregabalin (Lyrica) and perhaps most effective, topical formulations of the above (contact your local compounding pharmacy - topical formulations are best if it's a relatively small area like you're describing.)  Topicals are better because they target the area you're applying them to and not as much goes into the body.  People have had good luck with the new drugs, especially Lyrica - fewer side effects.
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Good question. Here is an answer. Opium comes from the poppy harvested in Afghanistan. It is used to fund the Taliban and other terrorist organizations. \n Morphine (INN)  is an extremely powerful opiate analgesic drug and is the principal active agent in opium. \n Heroin....Well you know those wonderful people who make that safe product called aspirin? Bayer... They invented Heroin. They were the first company to synthesis Morphine into Heroine. Look in your dictionary under Heroin. \nCocaine has been around a long time. It is from the coca plant grown in South America. It is processed to make it into a more powerful agent. It is rumored that it was once  in Coke but in an inert way. The type used was not the same as Cocaine. It was closer to the coca leaf. So it is not true that Cocaine was used in Coke. \n IN the case of heroin it was invented to be used as a narcotic to put people under for surgery. Morphine was used to kill pain as was Laudum. People who had cancer used it. \nNow your argument about Pharmaceutical companies is that they make mistakes,push their drugs on the market too soon. They are drug pushers. They contribute heavily to both parties. They are funded by insurance companies and HMO's as well as by doctors. They also invented these opiates.\nMarijuana is an weed or an herb. It is similar to growing Basil. The synthetic extract is THC. It too has been synthesised to make Caneb and angel dust. Both are dangerous.\n Ecstacy was not a harmful drug contrary to what people are told. But when the drug is on the open market with no regulation it is anyones guess what you will get. It was like LSD a legaly made drug. It was experimental and never hit the market because the FDA never approved it. Both were used as psycotropics. The military misused LSD. Therapist used Ecstacy.\nIf the govenment can't collect taxes on it they will be  pressed to iradicate it. \nCigarettes are legal. But alchohol is restricted. Try ordering a case of wine from California to Utah. \nYour God answer assumes there is a God. Maybe but if so man made drugs are chemicals and everything is a chemical. We are chemicals. So God made Chemicals.    \n If you want to smoke pot go ahead but look at the Bong pipe and how encrusted it is. Watch it crack from the resin. That is what is hapening to your lungs. Not to mention it makes you slow in the head. I stopped smoking due to allergys and because I was tired of being as dumb as my friends.\nA safe way to enjoy pot is to put it in brownies. No lung damage and it actually has a stronger effect. You can even use the cheap stuff. You can grow up to six plants in California. It is decriminalized. It should be legal but then plan on it costing more and becoming weaker and regulated.
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Endometriosis is a very painful condition that does require the use of stronger pain relievers at time.  It sounds as if you have been questioning an addiction or over usage of her pain pills for a while now and truth is, although sometimes pain medication is required, unless she is under extreme pain she shouldn't be using the precribed pain medication as her only treatment and it shouldn't be needed on a daily basis.  I endured years of endometriosis and if the endometriosis is so severe as to require so many pain pills ... it may be best to seek another alternative treatment.\n\nAs with any assumptions, it is wrong to assume that she is giving false information to her physicians unless of course you have positive proof of this.  Yet, with an addiction to prescribed pain medications it is very possible that one will exaggerate the intensity of their pain and/condition to further their cravings for the drug.  She also may be taking prescriptions that have conflicting effects which could be causing her drowsiness as well as many other problems.  Speak to her openly and if you feel you are certain she has an addiction, try speaking to a family member who may be able to assist you in helping her if that is what course needs to be taken.  If she is abusing the rx's...she needs help but if she isn't, she needs your friendship and comfort more than anything.  Good Luck...\n\n The fact that she has had an existing problem popping pills would definately set an alarm off on me also dear.  Go with your instincts as you know her and obviously care deeply on her behalf.)
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Well, your question was whether diabetic neuropathy can bring on pain in a person's legs.  Yes, it can.  More often, though, is a loss of pain and other sensation in the legs.  That's how a diabetic person can sustain a serious injury to the foot and not feel a thing.\n \nIn your mother's case, I suggest strongly that her physician be alerted to her situation.  There are other anodynes that can be tried (an anodyne is a painkiller).  It's odd that not even morphine relieves her pain, which suggests that drug should simply not be given her anymore.  There is such a thing as drug tolerance, in which the person needs more and more of the drug to come anywhere near the sought-after relief.  In the case of an opiate like morphine, there are complications that can be life-threatening.  \n\nThere are worthwhile alternatives that should be offered your mother.  But the doc has to be made aware of her ongoing discomfort.  There are doctors who are pain specialists; if hers is not one of these, your mother is within her rights to ask for a referral to one.
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I'm not sure about that tablet specifically, but a vicodine is supposed to be a hydrocodone, a type of pain reliever.
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Crack cocaine comes from the coca plant. Heroin comes from the poppy plant. (The same plant that morphine and opium come from) Both of course are refined, cut, and generally messed around with a bunch of chemicals which I dont know anything about. All I know is the different plants they come from. You can probably google it and find out. Id do it for you but I'm too lazy.\n\n\npeace
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When someone is in pain, the body sends its own endorphins out to ease the discomfort... so my guess would be dilation.
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Your friend was likely being treated by Hospice or was in a hospital or skilled nursing unit or nursing home.  The medical establishment has become increasingly prodeath, advocating euthanasia.  They kill by overdosing on morphine, sedatives and by withholding food and even water, as well as other medical care.  You don't have to do this.  You can take no more pain medication than is needed for any pain.  You can drink and eat or be fed through a stomach tube or intravenously.  You can get epidural medication to relieve pain, without the sedation of taking pain shots, if needed, oftentimes.  You can say to hell with you amateurs, I'm going to a special cancer center, such as MD Anderson Hospital in Houston, Texas. (I would advise this early on.)  Or you can go to Mexico and seek alternative treatments.  Don't ever let a doctor get you down, giving you a death sentence.  Who the hell does he think he is?  God?  No man has the right to say your time is up.  That is God's prerogative only.
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I've heard several places that women are much more likely to overdose on pills whereas men are more likely to shoot themselves. Given the availability of painkillers/sleeping pills/other depressants and alcohol (and the fact that these two things when taken in combination are oftentimes lethal), I'd assume taking them at the same time is the most common means of suicide, but I'm only guessing. I have no idea where you'd find a survey/study on this sort of thing.
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Hi! No, they're totally different.  Xenadrine gives you energy, that's it.  And Xenical blocks the fat from your food to be absorbed