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Opioids | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Opioids are a class of drugs that include synthetic opioids such as fentanyl; pain relievers available legally by prescription, ...

Opiates or Opioids — What's the difference? - Oregon.gov

Both opiates and opioids are used medically. They may be prescribed for pain relief, anesthesia, cough suppression, diarrhea suppression, and for treatment of ...

Opiate and opioid withdrawal: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia

Symptoms · Agitation · Anxiety · Muscle aches · Increased tearing · Insomnia · Runny nose · Sweating · Yawning. Late symptoms of withdrawal ...

Opioids | Johns Hopkins Medicine

“Opioid” is the proper term, but opioid drugs may also be called opiates, painkillers or narcotics. All opioids work similarly: They activate an area of ...

Definition of opiate - NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms

NCI's Dictionary of Cancer Terms provides easy-to-understand definitions for words and phrases related to cancer and medicine.

Opiate - Wikipedia

Opiates are alkaloid compounds naturally found in the opium poppy plant Papaver somniferum. ... The psychoactive compounds found in the opium plant include ...

NIDA.NIH.GOV | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

NIDA's mission is to advance science on the causes and consequences of drug use and addiction and to apply that knowledge to improve individual and public ...

Opiate - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

An opiate is a natural compound derived from opium, such as heroin, morphine, and codeine, known for their potent pain-relieving properties and addictive ...

What are opioids and why are they dangerous? - Mayo Clinic

Opioids are a broad group of pain-relieving medicines that work with your brain cells. Opioids can be made from the poppy plant — for example, morphine ...

Opioids: What They Are, Side Effects & Disorders - Cleveland Clinic

Common opiates include opium, heroin, morphine and codeine. An opioid is a substance that can be derived from the poppy plant, be synthetic or be semi-synthetic ...

Effective Medical Treatment of Opiate Addiction - JAMA Network

National Consensus Development Panel on Effective Medical Treatment of Opiate Addiction. JAMA. 1998;280(22):1936-1943.

Opioid Use Disorder - Psychiatry.org

While the terms opioids and opiates are sometimes used interchangeably, opiate refers specifically to natural compounds derived from the poppy plant, such ...

Opioid overdose - World Health Organization (WHO)

Opioids are commonly used for the treatment of pain, and include medicines such as morphine, fentanyl and tramadol. Their non-medical use, ...

Synthetic opioids - DEA.gov

WHAT ARE SYNTHETIC OPIOIDS? Synthetic opioids are substances that are synthesized in a laboratory and that act on the same targets in the brain as natural ...

Opiate - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

The term “opiates” refers to all natural opioids, including heroin, codeine, and morphine, whereas “opioids” refers to all natural, semi-synthetic, and ...

Opioid Medications - FDA

Prescription opioids are powerful pain-reducing medications that include oxycodone, hydrocodone, and morphine, among others, and have both benefits as well as ...

opiates.pdf - LSU Health New Orleans

Opiates, sometimes referred to as narcotics, are a group of drugs which are used medically to relieve pain, but also have a high potential for abuse.

What Are Opioids? | NCDHHS

Opioids are a class of drugs used to reduce pain. Opioids include some prescription pain medications, synthetic fentanyl and heroin.

Problem opiate use in Ireland. - Drugs and Alcohol

Examples include heroin, methadone, morphine, codeine, hydrocodone, oxycodone, fentanyl and tramadol. Heroin is synthesised from morphine, a naturally occurring ...

Opiates - Student Health and Counseling Services - UC Davis

Opiate drugs are derived from seeds of the opiate poppy. Opiates can be natural or synthetic; opioid is the term used to refer to a synthetic opiate drug.


Opioid

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Opioids are a class of drugs that derive from, or mimic, natural substances found in the opium poppy plant. Opioids work in the brain to produce a variety of effects, including pain relief.

Opiate

Drug class

An opiate is an alkaloid substance derived from opium. It differs from the similar term opioid in that the latter is used to designate all substances, both natural and synthetic, that bind to opioid receptors in the brain.

Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale

Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale is a method used by registered practitioners to measure the severity of a patient's opioid withdrawal symptoms.

Opium of the people

The opium of the people or opium of the masses is a dictum used in reference to religion, derived from a frequently paraphrased partial statement of German revolutionary and critic of political economy Karl Marx: "Religion is the opium of the people."

Thomas Knak

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Thomas Knak is a Danish electronic musician who has also produced work under the name Opiate. He worked with Björk on her Vespertine album and has produced remixes for Bomb the Bass and Coldcut.

Opiate '67

1963 film

I mostri is a 1963 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Dino Risi. It was coproduced with France. The film was a huge success in Italy. It was censored in Spain. In 1977 an Academy Award nominee sequel was filmed, entitled I nuovi mostri.