The Bill Williams memorial lecture: morphine - teaching an old drug new tricks

Taubert, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0454-5609 2022. The Bill Williams memorial lecture: morphine - teaching an old drug new tricks. Presented at: The Society of Physicians in Wales Conference 2022, Hercules Hall, Portmeirion Hotel, 06 May - 07 May 2022.

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Abstract

In this lecture, evidence, knowledge and research on Morphine is presented. Starting with its history, including uses in ancient Egypt and Greece, to modern day production methods. From Sertuerner to the Robertson-Gregory Process. Topics covered will include: - How opium was used in the past - Cholera - Papaver Somniferum and its constituents - Opiates versus Opioids - The environmental footprint of morphine production and what can we improve in future? - What’s safe to prescribe in palliative care? - NICE Guidelines - What do we cover with patients requiring morphine? - Morphine, double effect and the pre-Boetzinger complex - Substance use disorder, Addiction, Dependence and Pseudo-addiction - Lethal Drug or Lethal Prescribers? - Lessons from Oxycontin and Purdue - Current and future research

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture)
Status:	Unpublished
Schools:	Medicine
Date of Acceptance:	2022
Last Modified:	09 Nov 2023 02:11
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/149601

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