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Heroin vs Morphine - What's the difference?

heroin | morphine |

As nouns the difference between heroin and morphine

is that heroin is a powerful and addictive drug derived from opium producing intense euphoria classed as an illegal narcotic in most of the world while morphine is a crystalline alkaloid (7,8-didehydro-4,5-epoxy-17-methyl-morphinan-3,6-diol), extracted from opium, the salts of which are soluble in water and are used as analgesics, anaesthetics and sedatives; it is one of a group of morphine alkaloids.

heroin

English

(wikipedia heroin)

Noun

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  • A powerful and addictive drug derived from opium producing intense euphoria classed as an illegal narcotic in most of the world.
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    Synonyms

    * (chemical names) diacetylmorphine, diamorphine * (street names) Big H, boy, dope, junk, H, horse, Ron, shit, skag, smack * See also

    morphine

    Noun

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  • A crystalline alkaloid (7,8-didehydro-4,5-epoxy-17-methyl-morphinan-3,6-diol), extracted from opium, the salts of which are soluble in water and are used as analgesics, anaesthetics and sedatives; it is one of a group of morphine alkaloids.
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    See also

    * codeine * heroin