MS Contin Addiction and MS Contin Abuse
Siobahn Morse, the executive director of The National Institute For Holistic Addiction Studies, discusses MS Contin addiction and abuse in this Special Report.
What is MS Contin?
MS Contin, or oral morphine, is used to relieve moderate to severe pain.
Morphine long-acting tablets and capsules are only used patients who are expected to need medication to relieve moderate to severe pain around the clock for longer than a few days.
MS Contin Addiction and MS Contin Abuse
Morphine is in a class of medications called opiate or narcotic analgesics. It works by changing the way the body senses pain.
What are the effects of MS Contin?
There are many inherent dangers of abusing any narcotic including morphine. The physical consequences of morphine abuse can be extremely dangerous.
Taking high doses of a narcotic, especially when you are not used to it, can result in breathing problems, extreme drowsiness, coma, and even death.
The risk of overdose is especially high with morphine since many common methods of drug abuse caused the long-acting morphine capsules to release too much morphine too quickly.
The capsules contain tiny extended release pellets that release too much medication if crushed, chewed, snorted dissolved or injected. These could easily lead to a lethal overdose.
What is MS Contin addiction and abuse?
Morphine has an abuse liability similar to that of other opioid agonists. It is a Schedule II controlled substance and can be abused.
Morphine has often been diverted for non-medical use, especially in combination with other psychoactive substances.
Those who are seeking to obtain the morphine drug tend to use such tactics such as emergencies or visits near the end of office hours, refusal to undergo appropriate examination, testing or referral.
These individuals will also tamper with prescriptions and will doctor shop to obtain as much of the medication as possible.
What are the side effects of MS Contin?
The side effects of MS Contin include: nausea, vomiting, constipation, light-headedness, dizziness and drowsiness.
What are the withdrawal symptoms of MS Contin?
Anxiety, diarrhea, hot and cold flashes, inability to fall or stay asleep, increase in body temperature, increase in blood pressure, increased breathing and heart rate, kicking movement, loss of appetite, nausea, severe backache and flu-like symptoms.
MS-Contin Addiction and Abuse
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