Morphine

What Is it

• Opioid or narcotic 
• Treatment for long lasting pain
• Prescribed drug 
• Taken by pill or liquid

Use

• Swallow whole 
• Take at regular times
• keep away from light, heat and moister 
• Take as prescribed 
• Do not take with alcohol 

Effects

• Slow or stop breathing
• Drowsiness 
• Vomiting, constipation, nausea 
• Passing out sensation 

How it works

• Bind with opioid receptors 
• Causes cell to be less excitable
• Slows pain receptors in brain
• Silences pain transmitters in the spine 

Brain

• In creases pleasure and good feelings 
• Activity is slowed in the stem
• Addictive forming 
• Believed to block memory mechanism