Analgesics are drugs that relieve pain without causing unconsciousness. Opiates are obtained from the opium poppy and act on opioid receptors in the central nervous system and tissues. There are three main types of opioid receptors that are involved in analgesia, respiratory depression, and euphoria. Opioid analgesics include natural, semisynthetic, and synthetic drugs and can be classified as agonists, antagonists, or mixed agonist-antagonists. Morphine is a potent agonist that binds to opioid receptors, decreasing substances involved in pain transmission and producing analgesia, euphoria, respiratory depression, constipation and other effects. It is metabolized in the liver and excreted in urine.