Talk:Dermorphin

I remember reading somewhere once upon a time that dermorphin has been found by researchers at Johnson and Johnson to be in the urine and blood of autistic and (if I remember correctly) schizophrenic people. One source I stumbled into once upon a time claims that 90% of the autistic and shizophrenic patients tested positive for dermorphin in their blood, the levels of which dropped to undetectable levels when wheat and dairy products were removed from the diet. The hypothesis is something on the order of a bacteria, fungus, or enzyme takes root in the gut and splices the casein and gluten proteins into a variety of substances, including, unfortunately, dermorphin. Here are some urls that resulted from a google search for "dermorphin" and "autism". Something about this should make it into the article, I would think. Given the potential importance this research might have, it should be mentioned somewhere in this article by someone more qualified than myself to write it. At least mention that it is a hot topic of research.... http://www.vancesfoods.com/autism.htm http://www.healing-arts.org/children/autism-overview.htm http://www.bbbautism.com/pdf/article_14_why_does_gfcf_work.pdf —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.108.90.211 (talk) 22:48, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

More Information?
I randomly stumbled upon this article while walking from a pain medication I take, and the lack of detail struck me as odd. There are clinical trials from 25 years ago claiming this is some amazing drug 30 times stronger than morphine, with lower rates of addiction. However, if this were actually true, there would have been a whirlwind of research in the years following it. I only deal with moderate acute recurrent pain so it's not relevant to me directly, but there are other people for whom pain management and addiction are both paramount issues.

Anyway, the dearth of information suggests to me that either the initial studies were exaggerated and/or flawed (possibly biased in favor of big pharma), or else fatal side effects were discovered in humans; yet there is a remarkable paucity of data online. I'm curious about what happened and why there's next to nothing in the literature on this drug being explored further.

(Additionally frightening, a quick search suggests it seems to be unregulated at present in the US, and works in the microgram range. I can imagine addicts ordering this drug through a chemistry store for a quick high, and then dying of extremely high overdosing.  This really doesn't seem logical.) TricksterWolf (talk) 19:07, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Demorphin and drug screens
Would the peptide demorphin show up on a urine drugscreen? Allpaws1111 (talk) 17:57, 23 March 2023 (UTC)