Science news articles about 'opium poppy'

A man was charged after he allegedly accepted a package with more than 70 kilograms of dried opium poppy at his grocery store in southeast Edmonton last week, police said Tuesday.

... , most codeine is synthesized from the much more abundant morphine found in opium poppy. Codeine is converted by an enzyme in the liver ... of discovery. "We have found the missing pieces that were needed to understand how the opium poppy makes morphine." Facchini adds ...

A fungal disease is threatening the opium poppies in Afghanistan, says the head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

... Wallabies eating in Tasmania's legally grown opium poppy fields are getting "high as a kite ... of legally grown opium for the pharmaceutical market. "We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting ...

... -benefit profile through more careful and cautious prescribing." Opioids include not only opiates, which come from the opium poppy, he explained—but also similar synthesized ...

... surprise, researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have discovered that morphine (a derivate of the opium poppy that is similar to heroin) protects rat ...

... . Morphine is a powerful drug usually derived from the opium poppy, but scientists have long speculated animals may be able to synthesize it, especially as they have brain receptors responding ...

... who were addicted to opioids -- defined as opiates that are made from the opium poppy (morphine, codeine and heroin) or medications that are developed artificially (methadone or fentanyl). Researchers collected ...

... are prescription painkillers that contain compounds derived from the opium poppy. While they have long been used to control the symptoms of cancer and acute medical conditions, they are increasingly being used to control ...