Prolonged Use Of “Morphine”and Increased Risk Of Depression.

The recent research study supervised by a team of doctors at the University of St. Louis (USA) brings out serious facts on long-term use of palliative medications that belong to a family opiates such as morphine and similar type medicines like hydrocodone and Oxychodone and fentanyl.

The researchers pointed out that the use of these palliative medicines that belong to the family of opioid for more than 180 days, raise the risk of depression by 53%, among 25% of people taking these drugs during a period ranging between 90 and 180 days, compared to people who take these medicines for a period of less than 3 months.

The researchers followed that risks depends mainly on the length of use, the higher the period in which they get through the patient on opioid analgesics higher risk of depression, as well as the same thing for the doses of the drug, the higher the concentrations of these drugs the higher the risk of this mental illness, arguing that low doses may greatly reduce the risk of depression.

Prominent among other side effects resulting from eating those painkillers include the lack of secretions of testosterone and low levels of vitamin "D" and an imbalance in the regulation of blood glucose and feeling great pain in the body. These side effects will stop showing gradually after a long period.