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Pushing Painkillers | An Untapped Market | S53-E1

American Innovations

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End of Life Care - I'm Sorry, Mother

Saunders and twycross both strongly be v that end of life care should include keeping the patient as pain free as possible. Only a trained medical professional can safely handle a drug as powerful as morphine. But in the early 19 seventies, no pill can deliver this sustained release necessary to deliver a properly controlled dose of morphy. And both are too difficult and too risky for home use.

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