Diamorphine drug abuse

The process of controlled withdrawal from a drug (Palfium) Opioid medication, frequently abused by injection Heroin - the chemical term diamorphine may be used to refer to the pharmaceutical preparation... 

Diamorphine Diamorphine is relatively unstable in aqueous solutions, and minimum decomposition was observed at pH 4. Preparations should be used within 4 weeks when kept at room temperature, but degradation products also have analgesic activity.45,46 Diamorphine is used in the management of opioid dependence this is also a drug of abuse and the overdose is fatal47,48 Interactions are similar to those of opioid analgesics. Withdrawal symptoms of opioid dependence can be treated with diamorphine and methadone.49... 

Heroin (3,6-O-diacetylmorphine, diamorphine) was first synthesized from morphine by an English chemist, CR Wright, in 1874, and was introduced commercially as a morphine-like analgesic by the Bayer Company of Germany in 1898. Heroin was initially used as a morphine and codeine substitute for the treatment of tuberculosis and other respiratory illnesses. However, it quickly became apparent that this drug was more toxic than morphine and exhibited equivalent abuse liability and tolerance-... 

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