Ancient Drug
- Select a drug (or chemical) that would have been available in ancient times.
- Imagine yourself as this item.
- Reflect on being this drug. Among the questions you should answer are:
- What happens to you as you are grown, harvested, or synthesized?
- How you will be prepared for use?
- include describing how you are used, for what you used, and the effect(s) you cause
Answer preview
I am Morphine and would have been used in ancient times since I am the principal ingredient of opium from opium poppy plants that were grown in ancient times. My growth life cycle lasts for about one hundred and twenty days and germinates well in the temperate, moist climate. I am produced from the pod part of the plant, which is harvested by scraping the pods from the plant and cutting it open to reach the ovary wall, where I am extracted.
The standardization process is conducted in the lab and uses a specific protocol to minimize effects such as unpredicted and severe reactions when taken as a treatment tool. I am used in relieving severe and moderate pain in situations where other pain relievers have failed. I work by altering how the nervous system in the brain responds to pain. Thus, it is essential to take the dosage as instructed by a physician (Medline Plus, 2019).
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