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To: Honey_Bee who wrote (66391)	2/22/2012 9:29:49 AM
From: Gersh Avery	1 Recommendation Respond to of 103300

"What do you consider an "opiate?" " Substances that are derived from the opium poppy. Those substances that interact with the opiate receptors within the human body. Most of those will be similar to morphine in structure. There are also opiate substances that have functional chains or groups off a main body. These functional groups interact with these receptors. So the entire molecule isn't a opiate, but the side group makes it become so. So the simple answer .. those compounds that interact with human opiate receptors.