Opioids

Documents:

• Opioid FAQ
  by Mike Hamilton, 10 Jan 1994
• Opioid Analgesic Info Tables
  Information on dosage, duration, scheduling.
• New York Through the Eye of a Needle
  By Peter McDermott. From "The Face", Oct 1992
• MPTP Treatment Information

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Contacts and URLs:

• Erowid (homepage, more info)
  "Documenting the Complex Relationship between Humans and Psychoactives"
  • Drug Testing Homepage
    Drug testing info for a wide variety of substances (related items...)
  • Opiates Vault (related items...)
• poppies.org (homepage, more info)
  Web portal and forums devoted to poppies. Home of the Somni-Forum
• Miscellaneous URLs
  • Opium, Made Easy: One Gardner's Encounter with the War on Drugs
    Fascinating article from Harper's magazine. (related items...)

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Children:

• Opioid Agonists
  • Alfentanil
  • Codeine
    One of opium's active constituents
  • Fentanyl
    "Sublimaze"
  • Heroin (diacetylmorphine)
  • Hydrocodone (dihydrocodeinone)
    AKA Vicodin
  • Hydromorphone
    "Dilaudid"
  • Levorphanol
  • Meperidine
    "Demerol"
  • Methadone (6-Dimethylamino-4,4-diphenyl-3-heptanone; 1,1-Diphenyl-1-(2-dimethylaminopropyl)-2-butanone; 4,4-Diphenyl-6-dimethylamino-3-heptanone)
    Commonly used replacement in heroin addiction treatment
  • Morphine
    One of opium's active constituents and raw material from which heroin is obtained
  • Oxycodone (dihydrohydroxycodeinone)
    AKA percodan, percocet, oxycontin (sustained release)
  • Oxymorphone
    "Numorphan"
  • Propoxyphene
    AKA "Darvocet", "Darvon".
  • Sufentanil
• Opioid Antagonists
  • Naloxone
  • Naltrexone
• Opioid Partial Agonists
  • Buprenorphine
    "Buprenex"
  • Butorphanol
    "Stadol"
  • Dezocine
    "Dalgan"
  • Nalbuphine
    "Nubain"
  • Pentazocine
    "Talwin"
• Dihydrocodeine
• DXM (dextromethorphan)
  Cough-suppressing agent found in many over-the-counter cough and cold remedies; Dissociative at higher doses
• DXO (dextrorphan)
  A metabolite of DXM, converted by the body through O-demethylation
• Levomethorphan
  Opiate stereoisomer of DXM
• Nalorphine
• Papaverine
  One of opium's active constituents