Black mamba venom is 'better painkiller' than morphine (2012)
The title is not good--lots of meds are betting than morphine...that&#x27;s why we have all the other opioids: hydromorphone, fentanyl, remifentinil, sufentinil, oxycododone, etc.<p>If you look at the Nature abstract linked from the news article, all they claim there is that the analgesic effects can be, &quot;as strong as morphine.&quot;<p>This also a protein which is inherently more expensive and difficult to turn into a drug compared with a small molecule.