-- card: 15910 from stack: in -- bmap block id: 30984 -- flags: 0000 -- background id: 2564 -- name: -- part contents for background part 1 ----- text ----- Contrary to popular belief, morphine taken solely to control pain is not addictive, yet patients worldwide continue to be under-treated and to suffer unnecessary agony. -- part contents for background part 2 ----- text ----- The genes in our bodies are the immortals. They have an expectation of life which is measured not in decades but in thousands and millions of years.