CAS PS 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Intravenous Therapy, Opioid, Karyotype
5 Apr 2018
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Overview: history source, sociology, pharmaceuticals, politics, pharmacotherapeutics (medical uses, side-effects, pharmacokinetics (introduction of i. v. Exogenous opioids (i. e. origin from outside the body) Found in the poppy (papaver somniferum) from which opium is extracted. Opium contains two major opioids: codeine and morphine. Opioids have been used for thousands of years by numerous cultures. Sumerians had an idiogram for opium (4000 b. c. e. ) translated as joy plant . Opioids have been used recreationally probably as early as 6000 b. c. e. Historically, used as analgesic, anesthetic, antidiarrheal, cough medicines. Smoked for thousands of years in asia. Drank as laudanum (opium + alcohol) and other tinctures in english cultures. Opium smoking and drinking flourished during the 19th century (e. g. , mrs. Opium supplied illegally to china by the british east india tea company, leading to the opium wars and control of hong kong by british. The first legislation in the u. s. related to opium use was passed in 1875 to outlaw.
