Drug Corporations Push Taliban Opium for Medical Use
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
‘In 1998, scientists at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, discovered that noscapine could be used to combat tumors. Noscapine is derived from the opium poppy plant; the same source of heroin and the painkiller, morphine.
The drug version, called noscapine, is used as a cough suppressant in some countries. It is now being praised as a promising cancer-fighting agent.’
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Categories: Environment, Health/Pharma
biology, cancer, Cancer Cure, corporate, drug, environment, health, Heroin, medicine, opium, science, taliban
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