Posted by Quintal on August 20, 2007, at 16:33:18
In reply to Re: the low down on Benzos, posted by blueboy on August 20, 2007, at 14:40:43
Well Heroin is ~8 times more potent than morphine, and this makes it possible to inject a higher dose of 'morphine' in a smaller volume, making it useful for infusion pumps. My mother was given a diamorphine infusion pump for cancer pain after she built up a high level of tolerance to morphine. I'm annoyed at the opposition to medical use of diamorphine in the US too, but many aspects of American health care seem contradictory and illogical to me, looking from afar. I don't mean to offend anyone who works in the field, in fact I know many agree and are frustrated by the 'War On Drugs' propaganda that restricts their access to useful medicines, but that's the way it seems to me looking from the outside. I'm grateful that my mother had access to diamorphine when she needed it.
The fentanyls are more potent than Heroin, and much more likely to cause accidental overdose for that reason, yet they are prescribed in the US, even in the form of lollies(!): http://www.pijnpolikliniek.info/starnet/media/lollipop.jpg
So what's the big deal with diamorphine other than it being the media's bogey man?
Q
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