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Amapola: De Semilla Comestible a Crisis Opioide
Provides an in-depth overview of the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum), also known as the breadseed poppy, and its significant impact on humanity. It highlights the plant’s ancient cultivation, which predates recorded history, and its dual role as both a harmless food source (the seeds) and a contributor to a major global health crisis.
Belonging to the Papaveraceae family, the opium poppy produces a natural latex that serves as the source for powerful drugs such as morphine, codeine, and heroin. The text explains how this latex is used in both the pharmaceutical and food industries, noting that contaminated poppy seeds can sometimes trigger false positives in drug tests.
Finally, it emphasizes that the plant’s alkaloids can function as essential painkillers but also carry the potential to be highly addictive and lethal, underscoring the complex and controversial role of this species in human society.
You can listen and download our episodes for free on more than 10 different platforms:
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https://www.podcaistudio.com/
Belonging to the Papaveraceae family, the opium poppy produces a natural latex that serves as the source for powerful drugs such as morphine, codeine, and heroin. The text explains how this latex is used in both the pharmaceutical and food industries, noting that contaminated poppy seeds can sometimes trigger false positives in drug tests.
Finally, it emphasizes that the plant’s alkaloids can function as essential painkillers but also carry the potential to be highly addictive and lethal, underscoring the complex and controversial role of this species in human society.
You can listen and download our episodes for free on more than 10 different platforms:
https://linktr.ee/wild_wonders1
Produced by:
https://www.podcaistudio.com/
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By Wild WondersProvides an in-depth overview of the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum), also known as the breadseed poppy, and its significant impact on humanity. It highlights the plant’s ancient cultivation, which predates recorded history, and its dual role as both a harmless food source (the seeds) and a contributor to a major global health crisis.
Belonging to the Papaveraceae family, the opium poppy produces a natural latex that serves as the source for powerful drugs such as morphine, codeine, and heroin. The text explains how this latex is used in both the pharmaceutical and food industries, noting that contaminated poppy seeds can sometimes trigger false positives in drug tests.
Finally, it emphasizes that the plant’s alkaloids can function as essential painkillers but also carry the potential to be highly addictive and lethal, underscoring the complex and controversial role of this species in human society.
You can listen and download our episodes for free on more than 10 different platforms:
https://linktr.ee/wild_wonders1
Produced by:
https://www.podcaistudio.com/
Belonging to the Papaveraceae family, the opium poppy produces a natural latex that serves as the source for powerful drugs such as morphine, codeine, and heroin. The text explains how this latex is used in both the pharmaceutical and food industries, noting that contaminated poppy seeds can sometimes trigger false positives in drug tests.
Finally, it emphasizes that the plant’s alkaloids can function as essential painkillers but also carry the potential to be highly addictive and lethal, underscoring the complex and controversial role of this species in human society.
You can listen and download our episodes for free on more than 10 different platforms:
https://linktr.ee/wild_wonders1
Produced by:
https://www.podcaistudio.com/