Names:

• Morphine
• (5α,6α)-7,8-didehydro-4,5-epoxy-17-methylmorphinan-3,6-diol

 

Morphine is a powerful pain reliever that is a part of the opioid class of drugs. Morphine is isolated from opium which is a dried latex that comes from the unripe seedpods of Papaver somniferum. Which happens to be the plant that also produces poppy seeds!