The process of removing morphine from a substance or treating an addiction to morphine by gradually eliminating the drug.
From de- (remove) + morphine (the opioid drug) + -ization (process of). Morphine itself comes from Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams, because of the drug's sleep-inducing effects.
This word emerged in early medical literature around the 1800s when doctors realized morphine addiction was a serious problem and began developing systematic methods to help patients quit—it's essentially the medical term for what we now call 'detoxification.'
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