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Heroin

Known as: Diacetylmorphine, 7,8-Dihydro-4,5-alpha-epoxy-17-methylmorphinan-3,6-alpha-diol diacetate, Morphinan-3,6-diol, 7,8-didehydro-4,5-epoxy-17-methyl- (5alpha,6alpha)-, diacetate (ester) 
A narcotic analgesic that may be habit-forming. It is a controlled substance (opium derivative) listed in the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, Title… 
National Institutes of Health

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AlkaloidsAnalgesicsAnalgesics, OpioidMorphine

Narrower (3)

DiagesilN,6-diacetylnormorphineheroin-7,8-oxide
Diamorphine:MCnc:Pt:Ser/Plas:QnDiamorphine:PrThr:Pt:Unk sub:OrdDiamorphine:PrThr:Pt:Urine:Ord:ConfirmDrug abuse

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Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
CDC Grand Rounds: Prescription Drug Overdoes - A U.S. Epidemic
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
The `Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information
If economics is about the allocation of resources, then what is the most precious resource in our new information economy… 
Review
1999
Review
1999
Cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, other risk behaviors, and American youth.
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
High prevalence of sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections amongst the inmates of a district jail in Northern India
Two hundred and forty male and 9 female jail inmates confined for various crimes in a district jail near Delhi were screened for… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
The transition from injecting to smoking heroin in three Spanish cities. The Spanish Group for the Study of the Route of Heroin Administration.
AIMS To measure the current prevalence of different routes of heroin administration among users and to describe the most frequent… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Short-term object recognition memory in the rat: nonmatching with trial-unique junk stimuli.
A delayed nonmatching-to-sample task with trial-unique stimuli (DNMS), similar to that used to test object recognition memory in… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Simultaneous identification and quantitation of codeine and morphine in urine by capillary gas chromatography and mass spectroscopy.
An analytical procedure for simultaneous determination of codeine and morphine in urine is described. The detection of codeine… 
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Choice of strong analgesic in terminal cancer: Diamorphine or morphine?
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Disopyramide: serum level and arrhythmia conversion.
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
Congenital malformations of the central nervous system produced by narcotic analgesics in the hamster.
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