Hey all, welcome back to the Real Life Pharmacology podcast.

I am your host, Eric Christensen, pharmacist.

And you can track me down at real lifepharmacology.com.

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So today I'm going to cover morphine,

which is surprisingly a drug I have not covered specifically yet.

So I definitely wanted to do that.

Brand names of morphine, Acadian, Roxanol, MS. Cotton, there are a bunch of different brand names for morphine.

So if you do see a brand name that you're not sure of, definitely a good time to go ahead and

look at that, look it up, and make sure you know what you're talking about there.

So one of the really unique things about morphine is it's really considered a gold standard

opioid as far as dose conversions go.

And one of the unique reasons why it's like that is because there are so many dosage forms of morphine.

So we've got, you know, oral immediate release, we've got extended release, we can give morphine IV, we can do epidural, intrathecal administration.

We've got oral liquid formulations, suppository formulations.

I think you kind of get the point there.

There's a ton of different ways morphine can be administered,

and in the geriatric arena, this is definitely

advantageous in our hospice-type population,

where we may not necessarily always be able to easily give somebody an oral tablet, for example.

So that is definitely one nice thing about morphine in our hospice type population that may have

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