New Medication

Stephanie's picture
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Has anyone ever heard of the new drug called "snail" comes from the ocean and is suppose to help chronic pain tremendously it is non narcotic and is suppose to be non habit forming anyone has any info please let me know thanks.

 Stephanie





gtrplayer's picture
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I think you are referring to

I think you are referring to the cone snail, whose venom is reported to be 1000 times more potent, yet less addicting, than morphine.

Here is an article in Wikipedia about the cone snail. I think someone has posted about this on here before.

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photographed by Richard Ling on August 7, 2005. Image posted per the GNU Free Documentation License.

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