Talk:Opioid dependency
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This was one of the first articles I edited on Wikipedia when I finally got round to signing up for a user account; it's got a little bigger, but is still quite unloved. For something which affects probably millions of people around the world, you'd think something more can be written. Does the article need to be deleted? Or merged into Opioid#Dependence_and_withdrawal_issues?
Hence addition of the {{attention}} tag.
Richard W.M. Jones 14:46, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
- I agree the article does need some more work, perhaps as someone going through these issues I will attempt to add some more useful text later when I have some time (although I have never really made major page edits before and worry my personal experience of the issue may cause inadvertent POV issues) MttJocy 21:39, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Requested name change
I think that the name of this page should be opioid dependency rather than opiate, because it then encompasses the full range of opioids rather than simply morphine and codeine
--javsav (cbf logging in)
- Agreed, dependency to opioid drugs and true natural opiates functions in much the same way with similar effects, thus Opioid would be more suitable, I do suggest a redirect is left as well though due to the common erronious perception in the general public that opiate refers to all the opioid drugs, such as heroin, hydrocodone, oxycodone etc are often mistakenly termed opiates. MttJocy 21:39, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
