History of Opioid Medicine Practice Quiz (16 questions)

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The 1948 decree confirmed the 1916 regulations and classified substances into poisonous, narcotic, and dangerous categories. France introduced secure prescriptions in 1999, regulated prescription duration according to the substance, and received the Saint Christopher Hospital morphine solution in 1976; psychotropic substances were not one of the original three 1948 categories.

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The exogenous system includes morphine, codeine, methadone, and heroin and is associated with analgesia and addiction. Proenkephalin, prodynorphin, and pro-opiomelanocortin belong to the endogenous system, which is associated with pain, pleasure, and stress. Methadone is associated with the exogenous system, not the endogenous system.

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Opiates are derived from opium and include morphine and related derivatives. Opioids may be synthetic or endogenous and act on opioid receptors despite structures very different from morphine; receptor action alone does not make a molecule an opiate.

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Medieval Christianity viewed pain as divinely willed and expiatory, and the Church prohibited analgesics; physicians using opium could face excommunication. Buddhism distinguishes physical pain, on which little can be done, from mental pain, which can be acted upon. The Jewish practical approach emphasizes treatment in and through prayer, not its rejection.

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Opium traces extend back about 7,000 years, with poppy remains in European Neolithic settlements dated to 5000 BC; the Sumerian seal associated with Urlugaledinna records therapeutic use in 2000 BC. Egyptian use included analgesia and sedation, including calming babies. The evidence is not only 2,000 years old, and Urlugaledinna—not Hippocrates—is linked to the Sumerian seal.

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The reported US prescription-painkiller figures were 15,500 in 2009 and 33,000 in 2015, while French heroin-overdose deaths fell sharply after substitution medicines were introduced. More than half of deaths in the US account involved prescribed medicines; the 2018 figure was 65,000, and methadone involvement was 30%.

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The first general anesthetic was administered in Boston in 1846, prompting contentious debate and gradual adoption. In 1847, Magendie described loss of consciousness as degrading and argued that a courageous person should not tolerate it; adoption was gradual, not immediate.

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An alkaloid is chemically pure, pharmacologically active, and extracted from plants or living organisms; atropine, morphine, and cocaine are examples. Activity without chemical purity, purity without activity, or mineral origin does not fit the definition.

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Dependence can refer to a powerful or compulsive desire involving activities such as gambling, and impaired control, withdrawal, and tolerance are pharmacological indicators. Continued use despite manifest harm is also an indicator, so denying that link is incorrect.

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The receptors identified in 1973 are G-protein-coupled and have seven transmembrane domains; the identified types are mu, delta, and kappa. Fentanyl is 100 times more active than morphine, whereas heroin is 10 times more active, and sigma is not among the three listed receptor types.

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Medical consumption is distinct from trafficking, but medical opioids are not risk-free; high doses and long treatments can raise dependence, overdose, and mortality risks. A relative or friend was the source in 55% of cases, while medical prescriptions accounted for 17.3%, not 11.4%.

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Surgical analgesia was not accepted before the nineteenth century, and Velpeau made the stated declaration in 1840. Obstetric analgesia was not accepted before the twentieth century; Velpeau characterized artificial pain avoidance as an impossible chimera, rather than an established practice.

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Plato considered pain inseparable from pleasure, while Pascal accepted or even sought pain and regarded illness as the Christian’s natural state. The remaining statements reverse Plato’s association, reverse Pascal’s view of illness, or attribute Montaigne’s idea of a reflective pursuit of better suffering to Plato.

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The Hague Convention initiated controls on the production, trade, and use of opium, morphine, and cocaine, and de Quincey wrote about opium in The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Heroin addiction increased sharply in the United States during 1900–1912, and heroin was described successively as useless, dangerous, and proscribed as a medicine.

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Opium comes from dehydrated poppy juice, and anesthesia can enable painful invasive procedures. Its listed components are narcosis, analgesia, and muscle relaxation; poppy seeds and respiratory stimulation are incorrect substitutions.

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Methadone and buprenorphine have longer half-lives and reduce intoxication and physiological withdrawal effects. The 1987 WHO scale linked analgesic use to pain intensity, and morphine can be given orally, by injection—including patient-managed pumps—or transdermally; patches are not an injectable route.