Safe Opioid Prescribing

Generally opioids should be completely avoided in chronic, non-cancer pain

• Morphine relieves pain
• It doesn’t KILL Pain
• It helps people cope
• More people die from medically prescribed opioids in America than on the roads
• Morphine stops people breathing if used incorrectly
• Morphine makes people vomit
• Morphine makes people itch
• Morphine makes people constipated

Please remember to chart laxatives and anti-emetics