Morphine works by lessening the pain perception center of the brain and it is used to treat moderate to severe pain. Narcotic pain reliever is the group of drugs morphine is in. This drug is not used to treat pain when you have surgery unless you were already taking it. Short acting Morphine is used for a taken as needed basis for pain and the extended-release version is used around the clock as needed for pain.

Most doctors will not give you morphine unless you are already being treated with some type of opiate pain medicine and he has to make sure your body can tolerate the morphine. Morphine can be habit forming so make sure no one takes your medicine but you and put it out of reach. Do not drink alcohol while taking morphine because it could have serious side effects and could even cause death. You should also check food or medicine labels and make sure they don’t have alcohol in them while taking the morphine. Never take more morphine that the doctor prescribed and if it stops working talk to your doctor.

You should not just stop taking the morphine cold-turkey because you could have bad withdrawal symptoms. You need to talk to your doctor before you stop. If you have ever had an allergic reaction to a narcotic medicine do not use morphine. If you have asthma or bowel obstruction you do not need to take morphine. Morphine could be habit forming so only the person it was given to should take it. Older adults should be careful taking morphine because they could be more sensitive to the medicine.

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