Oramorph Addiction and Oramorph Abuse
Siobahn Morse, the executive director of The National Institute For Holistic Addiction Studies, discusses Oramorph addiction and abuse.
What is Oramorph?
Oramorph belongs to a class of drugs called opioid pain relievers. An opioid is sometimes called a narcotic.
Morphine is used to treat severe to moderate pain.
Extended release morphine capsules are used when around the clock pain relief is needed.
What are the effects of Oramorph?
There are many inherent dangers of using any narcotic including morphine.
Oramorph Addiction and Oramorph Abuse
The physical consequences of morphine abuse can be extremely dangerous.
Taking high doses of a narcotic, especially if you are not used to it can result in breathing problems, extreme drowsiness, coma, and even death.
The risk of overdose is especially high with morphine since many common methods of drug abuse cause the long-acting morphine capsules to release too much morphine too quickly.
The capsules contain tiny extended release pellets that release too much medication if crushed, chewed, snorted, dissolved, or injected. These could easily lead to a lethal overdose.
What is Oramorph addiction and abuse?
Morphine has an abuse liability similar to that of other opioid agonists. It is a Schedule II controlled substance and can be abused.
Those who are seeking to obtain a morphine drug tend to use such tactics as emergencies or visits near the end of office hours or refusal to undergo appropriate examination, testing, referral.
These individuals may also tamper with prescriptions and may doctor shop to obtain as much of the medication as possible.
What are the side effects of Oramorph?
The side effects of oral morphine include: nausea, vomiting, constipation, light-headedness, dizziness and drowsiness.
What are the withdrawal symptoms of Oramorph?
The withdrawal symptoms of Oramorph include: anxiety, diarrhea, inability to fall asleep or stay asleep, increase in body temperature, increase in blood pressure, increased breathing and hear rate, muscle spasms and severe flu symptoms.
Oramorph Addiction and Abuse
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