morphine

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To better understand how morphine works, researchers studied brain cells involved in tracking pain signals.

From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2026

In the early 1980s, for example, scientists synthesized ziconotide, a natural pain-killer 1,000 times stronger than morphine without the addictive side effects.

From Salon • May 21, 2025

The New Yorker was taken to a hospital where she received IV fluids and morphine and “the pain finally went away,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2025

Sir Ed told reporters he administered morphine to his mother to help her deal with the pain of her condition towards the end of her life.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2024

At three in the morning on Billy’s morphine night in prison, a new patient was carried into the hospital by two lusty Englishmen.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut