A person, organization, or establishment associated with another as a subordinate, subsidiary, or member: network affiliates. [Medieval Latin affÄ«liÄre, to adopt : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin fÄ«lius, son; see dhÄ(i)- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
Morphine is isolated from opium in large quantities (over 1000 tons per year), although most commercial opium is converted into codeine by methylation. Morphine acts as an anesthetic without decreasing consciousness, and it is one of the most powerful analgesics known.
What morphine is. Morphine is a type of painkiller called an opioid. Opioids are strong drugs similar to natural pain killing substances made in our body called endorphins. Opioid drugs were originally made from opium poppies and can now be man made in the laboratory.nce your pain is under control, you will probably change to a long acting slow release tablet or capsule. You take the slow release type of morphine either once or twice a day. If you are taking it twice a day you take it in the morning and at night, for example at 8am and 8pm.