Is coffee addictive to pain? Used in medicine is only equivalent to medicine for chronic diseases.

Will the use of morphine to relieve pain during treatment result in dependence? Anesthesiologists point out that medical use only constitutes physical dependence, not mental dependence, so it is not addictive.

The pain caused by tumor is called cancer pain, especially in patients with bone metastasis and advanced cancer, such as sleeping pain, speech pain and activity pain, so that the patients can not sleep and move normally. Morphine is a routine drug used to relieve cancer pain in clinic.

Anti-drug publicity is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. When we see "morphine", the first thing we think of is drugs. If we can't touch them, we become addicts. When the families of many cancer patients heard that they wanted to use morphine to stop cancer pain, they shook their heads again and again: what should they do if they become addicted to morphine? Dr. Ma Wuhua, director of the Department of Anesthesiology at the first affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of traditional Chinese Medicine, said that "therapeutic morphine is addictive" is a misunderstanding. Following the doctor's advice and standardizing the use of drugs will not make people become "addicts."

The difference

Addiction: mental needs, physical side effects

Treatment: only the body needs

Ma Wuhua pointed out that "addiction" is what we call drug dependence, which is divided into two categories: physical dependence and mental dependence. Physical dependence is not equal to addiction, but mental dependence is what people often call addiction.

In the treatment of cancer pain, patients are physically dependent on morphine and need morphine to relieve pain because of cancer pain, and sometimes, depending on the condition, the dose has to be increased-all of which are needed for cancer pain relief. At this time, cancer patients stop using painkillers, there will also be symptoms of dependence, belonging to normal physical dependence, the root cause is that the pain caused by the tumor has not been eliminated, not addiction.

And if my body does not need morphine (non-medical use), and regardless of the harmful effects of drugs, forced use of drugs. In this case, addicts gradually develop physical dependence and, more importantly, mental dependence on drugs, which is called "addiction".

Used in medical treatment is equivalent to medicine for chronic diseases.

In fact, used in medical treatment, morphine is the most commonly used painkiller. The side effect is small, the analgesic effect is good, as long as according to the standard treatment method, grasp the dose, will not be addictive.

On the contrary, if people with cancer pain refuse to take morphine because of misunderstanding and allow the pain to develop, it will cause poor appetite, poor sleep, irritability, depression, etc., and the pain will also lead to a high heart rate, high blood pressure, elevated blood sugar, a significant decline in body immunity and a series of side effects.

Therefore, for cancer patients, the use of morphine solves the most painful problems, improves sleep, improves appetite, and greatly improves the quality of life of cancer patients. Just like high blood pressure and diabetes, they also need lifelong drug control. Does it mean that taking antihypertensive drugs is addictive? In that case, what is there to worry about morphine addiction?