Archived Researcher Found a painkiller more powerful than morphine is extracted from snail venom (insighthuman.com)
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Archived Researcher Found a painkiller more powerful than morphine is extracted from snail venom (insighthuman.com)
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[–] viperguy ago
USELESS
The chemicals are too large to go through the blood brain barrier so are useless unless you stick a needle into the brain or the spine.
All papers refer to this unfortunate fact.
Big pharma might figure out how to create a smaller molecule that can dissolve in normal blood plasma and sneak into brain one day.
Tons of chemicals are over 10 times more powerful than morphine.
In fact many are over 10 times more powerful than this snail venom.
One example Ohmefentanyl is 28 times more powerful as a painkiller than fentanyl.
Ohmefentanyl is 6,300 times more powerful than morphine!
There are many many drugs more powerful that morphine. The problem is that you want one that can be dissolved in water, small enough to enter brain, and can be processed out of body by the liver.