Nth stage analgesics

Factual Questions
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And this was the reason advanced for using Heroin instead of Morphine. For the same amount of pain relief Heroin causes less constipation than Morphine. I personally never heard or read anything about Morphine making you less lucid that Heroin – it was the other side effects that mattered.

I am not a doctor. I do not do palliative care. What I know is far out of date. It might have been just common belief even then. I have not looked this up recently. There are many new opioids. etc

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Its increased fat solubility makes it easier to get into the CNS, and is also part of what makes it so addictive.

Brompton’s Cocktail, with varying ingredients, has long been used for terminal pain. The Wiki page says it’s obsolete, but practitioners in Great Britain have said it really isn’t; they just call it something else.

Brompton cocktail - Wikipedia.