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I want a lot of followers so I can post unhinged polls like how much cannabis have you bought at once or have you ever been a fight or have you ever heard live gunfire
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King of Drugs 👑 💊
(From my Instagram)
Morphine doodle that definitely got a bit out of hand lol, but I do love how it came out!
While researching Morphine’s history I came across something said by William Osler, a Canadian physician who’s regarded as the father of modern medicine. He referred to morphine as “God’s own medicine,” and I wanted to draw something using that quote!
As I explained in my last post, morphine was named after the Morpheus, Greek God of dreams, because of its sedative effects. Morphine is often using in end of life care to make people comfortable and ease their pain. Wings and poppy flowers are the two main symbols associated with Morpheus, and while I originally included the wing back tattoo onto Morphine’s design as a reference to this, I think the idea of said tattoo turning into angel-like wings when being used in someone’s last moments is a cool idea.
Morphine is incredibly old, and use of the 0pium poppy medicinally is even older. According to the DEA museum, the earliest use of 0pium poppies being grown and used was in 3,400 B.C. in Mesopotamia. It was know. As the “joy plant,” and as its influence grew, it was the catalyst of the mid-1800’s 0pium Wars in China. But before that, it was used in ancient Greek and Rome as a way to put people to sleep and relieve their pain.
There’s a lot of dripping liquid shown in this doodle, that’s because 0pium, also called poppy tears, is dried latex collected from the seed capsules of the 0pium poppy. Cutting a capsule reveals a milky white substance, that being latex. The idea that Morphine could cry white tears that either look like or actually are 0pium was something I thought was cool. There’s a couple seed pods included in the drawing as well.
Lastly, a paragraph from Kyoto Pharmaceutical University detailed a brief history of Morphine’s name, and noted how it is currently known as the “king of drugs,” which inspired the crown shown in the drawing, along with Morphine’s usually poppy crown.
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⚠️CONTENT WARNING - Mentions of illegal drugs, drug abuse, and 0pioids⚠️
(From my Instagram)
New drug class just dropped - 0pioids! Of course I had to start with the one who started it all, Morphine!
Morphine was given a name similar to that of Morpheus, the Greek God of sleep and dreams, because of its sedative effects. Because of this, I included some items/designs synonymous with Morpheus, those being wings and poppy flowers.
These are in the form of a back tattoo and a flower crown respectively. I also included a shoulder tattoo featuring the well-known ’M’ symbol found on the MS Contin pills, as well as similarly shaped ’M’ stripes throughout the design.
(Art by @/craftzombie_ on Instagram‼️)
(For reference 0pioids INCLUDE 0piates. 0piate is an older term that refers to drugs specifically derived from 0pium of the 0pium poppy plant, though today people tend to just kinda say whatever.)
I’ve chosen tigers to represent part of the 0pioid class, specifically the 0piates, or the ‘natural’ drugs of the class. This will include Morphine, as seen here, as well as Codeine, (remember that one from the Lean trend), Thebaine, and diacety|morphine, also known as Her0in. The tiger, an incredibly strong animal that sleeps, for up to 18-20 hours a day, seemed like a perfect fit for a drug class whose first drug was named for its sedattative properties.
Commonly abused drugs are still ones I want to personify, as it gives me a chance to research them and learn more about their history while expressing my interest in subject through characterizations.
While all of these drugs will still get classic personifications that stay within the species/rules of the previously established drugs of their class, some drugs, like BI@ck Tar h3r0in for example, might get something a bit different, as while it’s still technically just diacetylmorphine, there’s some differences in physical appearance/chemical composition that l’d wanna consider (it’s a dragon it’s probably gonna be a dragon, I think taking 'street names’ into account for drugs specifically abused/sold by unlicensed people for recreational use would fit well.)
