Abuse
- Morphine is a drug that is very commonly abused.
- Morphine is typically used in its injectable form when being used by addicts.
- Morphine used by addicts can range in concentration from 4% to 21%.
- Morphine is a very addictive drug. Addicts quickly develop a tolerance, meaning that
they must use more of the substance each time in order to feel the effects. Addicts also
quickly become highly dependent on the drug.
- Addicts often use morphine for its mind-numbing effects and hallucination inducing
properties.
- Before morphine's side effects were fully known and understood, the drug was
administered to patients entirely too often. As a result, many people became dependent on
the drug. Eventually, as people learned more about the drug, its use and administration to
hospitalized people became more heavily regulated. Today, the drug is administered with
much less frequency.
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