(1) By using opiate analgesics and sedatives to provide comfort to a dying patient, we risk depressing respirations and causing hypotension, which may hasten death.(2) The addition of opiate drugs in epidurals can create further risks for the mother, such as respiratory depression.(3) Both were white women with a college education, and both used prescription opiate drugs along with heroin.(4) Heroin is a powerful opiate analgesic derived from morphine.(5) In this case, the drug was an opiate called Percocet, a prescription pain medication.(6) Powdered morphine, which is an opiate , sprinkled directly on the wound and oral opium also were used widely as analgesics.(7) Small studies have suggested that the opiate antagonist naltrexone is effective for treating alcohol addiction.(8) As the name might suggest, cells with opiate receptors respond to opium and its derivatives, morphine and heroin.(9) The project, the first of its kind in the York area, aims to help addicts of heroin and other opiate drugs such as methadone.(10) A legal opiate analog such as methadone may be substituted for the abused opiate , with the methadone dosage then slowly reduced.(11) Anti-cancer drugs and radiotherapy commonly produce nausea and vomiting, as do other drugs active in the central nervous system, including opiate pain killers (morphine, heroin) and also alcohol.(12) Methadone is a synthetic opiate , similar to heroin, that blocks the effects of heroin and eliminates withdrawal symptoms.(13) He claimed that the practice of giving fishermen a strong opiate drug for withdrawal was just as dangerous as heroin as there was no way of monitoring its use at sea.(14) Although patients with pain may request opiate analgesics, it is best to emphasize the benign treatments mentioned previously.(15) A urine drug screen for cocaine, opiates , and methamphetamine was conducted on each potential participant.(16) A survey of general practitioners in Leicestershire has shown they are seriously dissatisfied with the systems in place for handling controlled drugs such as opiates .
