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Technically, anything that has more than two different types of atoms in it is a compound, so morphine is a compound, it has carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen atoms.

Personally, I would consider morphine a chemical. While opium would be a compound (is composed of several chemicals--including morphine).

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