The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 No 7332 p55
15 January 2005

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Morphine sulphate

Oral morphine solution should be a CD POM

From Ms C. F. T. Ralph, MRPharmS

A chiropodist friend was attending to one of her patients, when the woman began to drink straight out of a medicine bottle, which had been dispensed to her for the control of pain. The bottle contained Oramorph oral solution (morphine sulphate 10mg/5ml).

This is an illustration of how morphine sulphate preparations can be handled casually by patients. The result is that, without doubt, there are people becoming dependent on it. I find this most concerning. Should we really be giving this for long periods to people who are not terminally ill?

I think that morphine sulphate oral solution should be reclassified as a CD POM and be subjected to records.

C. Ralph
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset

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