World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

NARCOTIC DRUGS: THE VEHICLES TO HELL

Kshitij Bose* and Dr. Dhrubo Jyoti Sen

ABSTRACT

A substance used to treat moderate to severe pain. Narcotics are like opiates such as morphine and codeine, but are not made from opium. They bind to opioid receptors in the central nervous system. A more current term for these drugs, with less uncertainty regarding its meaning, is “opioid.” Examples include the illicit drug heroin and pharmaceutical drugs like OxyContin®, Vicodin®, codeine tramadol, oxycodone, fentanyl, methadone, dextromethorphan, meperidine, buprenorphine, morphine, methadone, and fentanyl. Thus narcotic analgesics are usually administered for the relief of severe pain associated with fractures, burns, renal colic, coronary occlusion, etc., while the non-narcotic analgesics are generally given for headaches, muscular aches and pains of inflammatory origin.

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