The biggest benefit of opium was that it had the ingredient of morphine in it which helps to relieve pain in just minutes. Opium use helped subside symptoms of illnesses, such as getting rid of coughing and also diarrhea which was common because many had dysentery. Though most used opium because it released dopamine in the brain which brings people pleasure. At the time when opium was being used often many doctors did not know the drawbacks of the drug. It is now known that opium can cause nausea in about 40 percent of people who use it due to the morphine. Coincidentally enough the drug couple also cause constipation if the person taking it was using it to relieve diarrhea. The biggest issue with opium is that it slowly kills the part of the
