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devoured-by-incandescence opened this issue Apr 30, 2021 · 2 comments · Fixed by #50061
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Change Morphine's description to state that it is a natural drug #48710

devoured-by-incandescence opened this issue Apr 30, 2021 · 2 comments · Fixed by #50061
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@devoured-by-incandescence

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Morphine's description in-game states that it's a semi-synthetic opioid. This is false. Morphine is a naturally occurring drug. Semi-synthetics require synthetization from a natural drug, as opposed to naturally occurring drugs, which only need extraction, and total synthetic drugs, which are synthesized, typically, from other synthetic bases.

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Morphine's description should state that it is a natural opioid. "A very strong naturally occuring narcotic used to treat intense pain..."

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Outright remove the part of the description that states that it is a semi-synthetic narcotic without replacement, simply referring to it as "A very strong narcotic..."

Additional context

While heroin is a semi-synthetic opioid and tramadol is a synthetic opioid, morphine is most definitely naturally present in opium as the majority of its alkaloid content. While morphine does need to be chemically extracted from the opium rubber before use, synthetization methods of morphine are currently far too expensive to pursue on industrial scale, and likely always will be, according to experts in the field. Besides that, synthetically produced morphine is totally synthetic, not semi-synthetic. Virtually all morphine in use in the medical industry, the black market drug trade, and any other contexts it might be found in is natural morphine, extracted from opium rubber, though opium straw extractions are also common. This isn't the biggest deal, of course, but it is inaccurate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphine#Production
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphine#Chemical_synthesis

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#9034

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"A very strong, naturally-occurring narcotic used to treat intense pain" would be better IMO. This will need to go into 0.F-dev, or wait until after 0.F comes out (which marking it with "0.F String Freeze" will enable doing).

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