Morphine reduces post-traumatic stress
An issue of the New England Journal of Medicine published earlier this week stated that in a study of 696 troops wounded in Iraq, those who received morphine soon after injury were half as likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder as those who did not receive the drug.
In this study, 61 percent of the troops who received the drug had PTSD, compared with 76 percent who had the disorder who did not receive the drug .
Researchers, however, plan to have the effect further verified before making this a routine practice.