Sentences with phrase «better than morphine»

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The quest for better opioids got a much - needed jolt in 1999, when researchers at Duke University showed that mice lacking a protein called beta - arrestin 2 got more pain relief from morphine than normal mice did.

Combining morphine, a narcotic pain reliever, and nortriptyline, an antidepressant, has been found to successfully relieve chronic neuropathic pain — or a localized sensation of pain due to abnormal function of the nervous system — in 87 per cent of patients, and significantly better than with either drug alone.

I have been able to stop using my morphine patch and have begun reducing my steroids for my rheumatoid arthritis and I'm still feeling better than I was without them!

The only thing worse than radiotherapy would be doing it without a life partner... well, and morphine.