Boarder, M. et al.
- Pharmacology for Pharmacy and the Health Sciences
The origin of the opioid analgesic drug is naturally occurring opium collected from poppies. Morphine is the major active ingredient of opium. Despite the generation of many derivatives, morphine remains the most important analgesic in clinical use against which the performance of other drugs is measured.
Ian Mortimer
- The Outcasts of Time
Men and women have a limited capacity for happiness and suffering. If you were to make their lives more luxurious and to remove their pain, they would find other ways in which to be discontented. And if you were to make their lives miserable, they would find joy in the slightest delights.
Ian Mortimer
- Fairness in society: The Outcasts of Time
Fairness is to society what water is to a duck's back. Society does not change because of fairness: it changes because it sees an advantage. And it won't change if most people do not see an advantage.
