Morphine

The alphabet. The birdsong. The warm-up writing. The readability. The breath. The disturbed breath. The undisturbed breath. The metabolism. The disturbed metabolism. The work. The disturbed work. The responsibility. The disturbed responsibility. The writing. The endurance. The in-duration. Endurance. The in-duration man. Stand up. Stop writing. Turn on the computer…

Thinking Citizen Blog — Tuesday is Economics, Finance, and Business Day Today’s Topic: Big Pharma V: Merck — From Morphine to Streptomycin to Vaccines to Vioxx and Statins This is the fifth in a series that began on 11/30 with a note on Vertex, followed by Pfizer (12/7). Johnson and…

Recently my platonic life-partner Layla sent me a recording she took when I was in the Emergency Room. I started to write a post about the ER in 2016, just a few days before I was hospitalized for rejection, a lot of which I used for my previous post The…

The Opium Poppy and relatives: Great ‘Weeds’ in every sense! Globally, no other plant comes anywhere near the importance of the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) of the Family: Papaveraceae, as a medicinal plant. It is, perhaps, the greatest weed, the world has seen! Poppies are strong annual colonizers (weeds), and there are hundreds of species, both wild and cultivated. The…

There are a lot of myths about morphine as well as other medications used at the end of life. The sad part about these myths is that while everyone is entitled to their opinion, holding an outright false opinion can lead to someone else’s suffering which could have been prevented. …

Some would say I have been dealt a shitty hand in health. And those who know me would likely tell you I have a fairly positive predisposition no matter what gets thrown at me. There is not much by way of my medical journey that gets me mad. Upset, yes…

It’s easy to think of human rights as in some way innate, as something we and our ancestors have all simply been born with. But they do not exist in a purely objective sense, independently of human institutions. Originally introduced with the narrower purpose of ensuring freedom from slavery and…