[TexGuy]

Many studies such as this one will start coming out after some version of Obamacare passes ... Gotta cut down on costs with altruism — Save the People!

[bigfootbob]

More reason to embrace medical cannabis.

[ConservativeMind]

Egg yolks also contain a lot of lecithin and lecithin is quite high in acetylcholine. This is, of course, never a problem for people without cancer, but this is very useful to know for those who have cancer.

Thanks!

[wardaddy]

absolute BS of the highest order...utter crap

[fso301]

By the time morphine starts being administered, the end is near.

This study could be very significant in that it would affect trials of anti-cancer drugs on late stage patients. Discarded therapies many have to be re-evaluated as will existing therapies in the presence of non-opiates.

[A CA Guy]

I kind of feel “so what” on this one.
My mom died from a cancer and toward the end they used morphine as a pain reliever of last resort.

You know folks, that is a last resort drug and if they are giving morphine prior to the last few months of life, something is wrong with the care anyway.

Morphine is mostly for people in their last stages of dying anyway. I wouldn’t worry so much about spreading more stuff at that point.

If anything, if someone you love is NOT about to die and is on morphine for more than a very brief time, something is WRONG with that IMO.

[Condor51]

If you have Colon Cancer, or any cancer for that matter, and are at the stage were you need Morphineto control the pain, it makes NO difference if it spreads. You're already terminal.

So withholding Morphine to 'extend' your life a couple weeks, while being in complete misery, is as STOO-PID^™ as worrying about the terminal patient getting 'hooked'.

[the long march]

That sucks —— morphine has been a good pain management tool for many cancers

[Boogieman]

I think one thing some people are missing in this story is that it is an opiate receptor, not just a morphine receptor. Pretty much any painkiller besides aspirin or acetaminophen is an opiate, and people receive these painkillers for a lot of things besides terminal stage cancer. You get them when you have dental surgery, back pain, broken bones, or most surgeries. So if you had an undiagnosed tumor that was growing very slowly, and were given opiates it might accelerate the growth, if the science behind this article is accurate.

[Rockingham]

This result further supports the use of low dose naltrexone as an opiate receptor antagonist in cancer treatment.

http://www.lowdosenaltrexone.org/ldn_and_cancer.htm

[BlueLancer]

This news just in ...

Scientists have discovered that swallowing small parts of saliva over long periods of time leads to death for 100 percent of all people who do so...

George Carlin