Sentences with phrase «relief than morphine»

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Newer drugs may cause less abuse and addiction than morphine and they may act longer or be more effective by mouth, but no drug has been discovered that is more effective than morphine for the relief of severe pain of all kinds.

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.

In that trial, oliceridine provided at least as much pain relief as morphine did, and patients who received the new drug suffered significantly less nausea, vomiting and hypoventilation (a measure of slowed breathing) than patients on morphine.

More than 250,000 terminal cancer patients each year take opioid drugs such as morphine for pain relief and 125,000 experience constipation, sometimes so severe that they refuse morphine.

More than 250,000 terminal cancer patients each year take opioids, such as morphine, for pain relief.

And the more serious painkillers, known as opioids (codeine, morphine) often prescribed postsurgery or for short - term relief of extreme pain, cause many more side effects such as nausea, constipation, depression, and itching in women than men.

Meditation even provided greater pain reduction than morphine or other drugs for pain relief, which normally reduce ratings of pain by approximately 25 %.