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What is the medicinal use of narcotic drugs ?

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Narcotic analgesics (morphine and many of its homologous) when administered in medicinal doses, relieve pain and produce sleep. Since, these drugs relieve pain and produce sleep, therefore are chiefly used for the relief of postoperative pain, cardiac pain and pains of terminal cancer, and in child birth.
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