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That's quite an odd question, because morphine is actually derived from opium!
Opium is the latex you get from the opium poppy - papaver somniferum - and it contains several useful opiates including codiene and morphine. It also contains thebaine, which although not useful itself, is converted into many useful drugs such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, methadone etc..
The only thing I've heard of that is 'derived' from morphine is heroin, or diacetylmorphine. This was initially used as an alternative to morphine for addicts, because they thought it was less addictive. Unfortunately as you probably know this is definitely not the case and sadly they created a load of heroin addicts.
What else can I help you with?
Where was morphine originated?
Morphine is generally kept locked up in hospitals. Pharmacies do not normally carry morphine. Morphine is a controlled substance because it is derived from or emulates the same opioid source that heroin comes from.
What is the plant of morphine?
Morphine is derived from opium, which is extacted from the Opium Poppy, Papaver somniferum.
Morphine and heroin are?
heroin is a bad drug and so is morphine
Is morphine sulphate an opium deriavative drug?
Yes, morphine sulfate is an opioid analgesic derived from opium. It is a natural product of the opium poppy plant and is commonly used for pain relief in medical settings.
What category are morphine tablets?
Morphine is an Opiad if that is what you mean. That means that it is derived for opium which comes from poppies. Similar to heroin.
What is opium poppy?
The opium poppy is a type of plant in which opium and poppy seeds come from. Opium is where many narcotics like morphine, are taken from.
What is codeine derived from?
Codeine is the stepped down version of morphine, which is the active ingredient in the opium scrapped from opium poppies. Google codeine to see the chemical process in preparing this substance.
How do they make morphine?
Although morphine can be synthesized by an organic chemist, its is far cheaper and economical to retrieve morphine from opium. Opium comes from a type of flowering plant that contains several chemicals that are medically useful, morphine is one such chemical. There are various processes for isolating morphine from opium/poppy straw, but suffice to say, organic chemistry techniques are involved.
What is the percentage of Morphine in pure Opium?
opium contains 10-16 percent of morphine.
What does morphine contain?
The active ingredient in morphine preparations (immediate-release and timed-release tablets, transdermal patches, and solutions for injection) is morphine. That is the opiate taken to reduce pain.
Is morphine an opium?
No. Opium is a mixture of several drugs, one of which is morphine. Heroin is a derivative of morphine. The two are similar but unrelated (except that the morphine is usually taken from opium).
Does heroin come from a plant or is it made in a lab?
Both. It originates as opium from opium poppies, which is then refined using chemicals into morphine. Morphine can then be further refined and condenced with a final result of much more effective heroin.
