[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'.

[WayneLusvardi]

My girlfriend was given morphine for 3 years while she fought and lost battle with cancer.

This is a foreign study from Kalmar University in Sweden.

The finding about morphine is buried in a report about the results of the study and apparently the finding was incidental to the major focus of the study.