PHAR 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Opioid Overdose, Hypodermic Needle, Morphine

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Pharmacology and Toxicology
• Course: PHAR 100
• Professor: Nikki Philbrook

Document Summary

List the classification of the opiates and give an example of each class. Discuss methods to reduce diversion of prescription opioids. Opium is resinous exudate of the opium poppy has been used for thousands of years for social and medicinal purposes to produced euphoria, analgesia, sleep and relief from diarrhea. Opium has at least 20 different compounds of which morphine and codeine are pain relieves. After the invention of the hypodermic needle in 1856 people injected morphine. In 1900 4% of the population was addicted. In the past century, most nations have passed laws to limit the use to medical. Opioid: any natural or synthetic substance which exerts actions on the body that are similar to those induced by morphine and that are antagonized by the drug nalozone. Opiate narcotics: analgesic agents obtained from the opium poppy. Endogenous brain peptides that exert analgesic actions which all called endorphins. The receptor for opioid molecules were found in 1970.