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The Opioid Potency Progression: Seagull Edition

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The Opioid Potency Progression: Seagull Edition

The seagull's reaction perfectly captures the potency ladder of opioids! While morphine and codeine have the bird calmly perched, heroin has it squawking dramatically. But fentanyl? That's when our feathered friend goes NUCLEAR and transforms into a blurry red supernova! 💥 It's like watching the periodic table's version of "how it started vs how it's going" but with increasingly chaotic chemical bonds. Pharmacology has never been so... explosive! This is basically what happens in your brain receptors, except with fewer feathers and more neurotransmitters going "WHEEEEE!"

Opioid Potency: The Seagull Scale

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6 days ago 17.8K views 0 shares

Opioid Potency: The Seagull Scale

The seagull meme perfectly captures the escalating potency of opioids. Morphine and codeine? Just regular squawking birds. Heroin? Now we're getting a bit unhinged. But fentanyl? That's when everything goes nuclear red and you're basically a blurry ghost-bird. This meme is pharmacology in a nutshell - each step up the opioid ladder is roughly 5-10 times more potent than the last, until you hit fentanyl which is like bringing a nuclear warhead to a water balloon fight. And yes, that's why medical professionals get nervous twitches whenever patients casually ask "can I get something stronger for the pain?"