US Military Uses Candy Sucker For Pain Killer – Leading the way for the military the US Marines are using a candy sucker dosed with Fentanyl a powerful pain killer instead of an injection of morphine for badly wounded marines.
The US miltary sucker or lollipop treatment offers an alternative to the morphine needle jab often depicted in war movies with the medics stabbing a syringe into a wounded soldier’s leg or arm. Now US Marines badly wounded in Afghanistan may get a Fentanyl “lollipop” a powerful pain killer.
After the US Marine special operations forces completed successful trials of the new sucker, commanders ordered the lollipop to be distributed to medics throughout the Marine Corps, according to Captain Brian Block who oversees the new pain killer delivery.
The US military’s new suckers contain Fentanyl, which is a powerful synthetic opiate analgesic similar to but more potent than morphine. It is typically used to treat patients with severe pain, or to manage pain after extremely severe body trauma or surgery. It is also sometimes used to treat people with chronic pain who have built up a resistance to other opiate pain killers.
The Fentanyl lollipop offers medics a faster way to ease the pain of a battlefield injury as the drug gets absorbed faster into the blood stream through a sucker in the mouth than from a needle injected into a muscle. The lollipop also gives medics more control over the dosage, as the sucker can be withdrawn at any moment, unlike a shot of morphine.
Like other medicine distributed to US military medics, the lollipops are subject to strict controls and will not be handed out directly to troops on the battlefield.
In its prescription form, fentanyl is known as Actiq, Duragesic, and Sublimaze. It has recently been in the news as the result or part of the cause for numerous drug overdoses. Clandestine laboratories mixed the Fentanyl with heroin selling it under street names such as Apache, China girl, China white, murder 8, TNT, as well as Tango and Cash.
Fentanyl has long been prescribed by US physicians and administered via injection, transdermal patch, or in lozenge form.
Medical Express reports that US military medics in Afghanistan will still have the option of employing the morphine syrette, a small needle on a collapsible tube. And for the moment, the pain-killing sucker will only be offered in ”berry” flavor.
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