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- From: szikopou@superior.carleton.ca (Steven Zikopoulos)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: Re: morphine/heroin question
- Message-ID: <szikopou.728152891@cunews>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 16:41:31 GMT
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- In <9301271452.AA00669@hdsc-calm.ssc.af.mil.hdsc.ssc.af.mil> ccarroll@hdsc-calm.ssc.af.mil (Chris Carroll) writes:
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- >Could someone email me with info or stats concerning morphine?
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- >Are morphine and heroin the same thing, what are the differences,
- >similarities, etc.
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- >Thanx,
- >cHris
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- They both fall under the same class of drugs--they are both opiod
- agonists.
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- I believe heroin is more powerful than morphine because it can enter
- the brain more easiy than morphine and actually get metabolized into
- morhpine (not sure about the last one...I may be thinking of codiene
- which falls under the same class)
-