Zenz M
Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy, University Clinic Bergmannsheil, Bochum, West Germany.
Postgrad Med J. 1991;67 Suppl 2:S100-2.
Morphine and other strong opioids are still, more than 180 years after the syntheses of morphine, not adequately used in clinical practice and many patients suffer unnecessarily severe pain in consequence. Governments limit morphine usage by legal restrictions. The underuse of morphine and its restriction in many countries is mostly due to prejudice and myths which clinical experience does not show to be true. Morphine is a very safe drug, correctly prescribed in chronic pain therapy, the only severe side effect being constipation.
在吗啡合成180多年后，吗啡和其他强效阿片类药物在临床实践中仍未得到充分使用，许多患者因此遭受不必要的剧痛。政府通过法律限制来控制吗啡的使用。在许多国家，吗啡使用不足及其受限主要是由于偏见和误解，而临床经验表明这些并非事实。吗啡是一种非常安全的药物，在慢性疼痛治疗中正确使用时，唯一的严重副作用是便秘。
