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.
Diamorphine - heroins generic name - is still prescribed for pain in many countries, including the UK.
Ironically the US uses fentanyl for palliative care instead due to prohibition.
diacetylmorphine
Same thing. Diamorphine is the name used by the NHS in the UK at least, as well as the European Union Drugs Agency.
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.