A Une Researcher Aims for a Painkiller Like Morphine, Minus the Side Effects ; the Navy Is Funding the Project in Hopes It Will Result in a More Effective Drug for Use in Combat.

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The morphine worked like a blunt hammer, effective yet imprecise.

For nine months, in several large daily doses, the drug wiped out pain far more severe than most of us can imagine.

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A Une Researcher Aims for a Painkiller Like Morphine, Minus the Side Effects ; the Navy Is Funding the Project in Hopes It Will Result in a More Effective Drug for Use in Combat.

But relief came at a price for Sgt. Curtis Mills, a Maine Army reservist who was wounded about a year and a half ago in Iraq. The morphine's side effects were also potent.

Mills suffered from constipation bad enough he had to take additional medication. Hi...

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