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Heroin is a name brand drug designed for pain by Bayer. Later it became the illegal substance it is today. I imagine patients seemed perfectly normal at the t
by ijidak 1y ago
Heroin is a name brand drug designed for pain by Bayer.
Later it became the illegal substance it is today.
I imagine patients seemed perfectly normal at the time it was released, otherwise it would never have been released for widespread medical use.
But, like fentanyl, a subset of the population exhibits the extreme behaviors that become stereotypical.
- renewiltord 1y agoIt is the same for fentanyl. I was administered many of these drugs in the ICU and never felt like taking any more after I healed months later. Some fraction of the population has chronic pain and uses this to manage and some other fraction uses it for the euphoric feeling.
- vidarh 1y agoDiamorphine - heroins generic name - is still prescribed for pain in many countries, including the UK.
- narcotraffico1 1y agodiacetylmorphine
- vidarh 1y agoSame thing. Diamorphine is the name used by the NHS in the UK at least, as well as the European Union Drugs Agency.
- projectazorian 1y agoIronically the US uses fentanyl for palliative care instead due to prohibition.