According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), the average income for people aged 65 and older in 2008 was $29,214 per annum. This is up from $28,134 in 2007. Within the same age group, those who had graduate degrees earned $62,777 while those who held bachelor degrees made $45,948.
The potential for dependency is very high with Morphine, both physically and psychologically. Morphine is a fast-acting opiate analgesic and the primary agent in opium. It acts directly on the central nervous system to relieve severe pain, much like other opiates including heroin. It is used to treat pain from surgery, illness and trauma, along with chronic pain conditions associated with cancer, kidney stones and other ailments.
Morphine sulfate is a prescription drug used to treat moderate to severe acute or chronic pain. It's sold under several brand names, including Roxanol, Kadian, and Avinza. Morphine is part of a class of drugs called opiate (narcotic) analgesics, or opioid agonists, which block the transmission of pain signals to the brain by binding to nervous system proteins called opioid receptors. Morphine is also sometimes prescribed off label to treat pain in hospitalized children. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first approved morphine in 1941. Multiple companies, including King Pharmaceuticals, Hospria, and Roxane Laboratories, manufacture the drug under different brand names.