NY TIMES Article About Pain Solutions

From: Robert Cohen (robtcohen_at_msn.com)
Date: 02/16/05 

Date: 16 Feb 2005 06:54:00 -0800

www.nytimes.com

cookie hassle registration, while this article is (imho) worth the
trouble for a layman who is a damne D in high school chemistry (me)

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/15/health/15pain.html

"The Search for the Killer Painkiller
By ANDREW POLLACK

Published: February 15, 2005

Despite all the advances of modern medicine, the main drugs used to
fight pain today are essentially the same as those used in ancient
times.

Hippocrates wrote about the pain-soothing effects of willow bark and
leaves as early as 400 B.C. Opium was cultivated long before that.
Aspirin and morphine, based on the active ingredients in these
traditional remedies, were isolated in the 1800's and helped form the
foundation of the modern pharmaceutical industry. ..."

(the entire copyrighted article is at the NY TIMES website)