Comment by ijidak

Comment by ijidak 2 days 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.

vidarh 2 days ago

Diamorphine - heroins generic name - is still prescribed for pain in many countries, including the UK.

projectazorian 2 days ago

Ironically the US uses fentanyl for palliative care instead due to prohibition.

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narcotraffico1 2 days ago

diacetylmorphine

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- vidarh 2 days ago
  
  Same thing. Diamorphine is the name used by the NHS in the UK at least, as well as the European Union Drugs Agency.
  
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renewiltord 2 days ago

It 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.