I've heard morphine overdosing can kill you, but what about large doses of morphine taken regularly (and sometimes excessively) over a long period of time - to ease the agonizingly sharp breathing pains that lung cancer patients have? Also, are there any other (safe and similarly effective) drugs that can be used as an alternative for morphine?
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First of all, overdosing of any medication can kill you including tylenol. As far as morphine there is a controversy on that. Morphine or any opiate in large doses suppressing breathing. In the case of lung cancer patients, it's a good pain medication. The controversy is that morphine also extends life by about a few minutes. Not much but it's to prove that it doesn't kill a person when given in normal doses. .Another drug that has similar effect would be Dilaudid, which is called hydromorphone. That's the closest thing to Morphine.
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