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Methadone vs Adolophine - What's the difference?

methadone | adolophine |

As nouns the difference between methadone and adolophine

is that methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic, used to wean addicts off of heroin or other opiate based narcotics, and in chronic pain management while Adolophine is Apocryphal former name for the drug methadone.

methadone

English

Noun

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  • (chemistry) A synthetic opioid analgesic, used to wean addicts off of heroin or other opiate based narcotics, and in chronic pain management.

    • adolophine

    English

    Noun

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  • * 2003 , Gillian Tober, John Strang, Methadone Matters
    • Although it has been widely asserted that one of the first trade names given to methadone - Dolophine - was a derivation of Adolf (and even that it was called Adolophine in Germany - the A being dropped after the war),...
  • * 2009 , Andrew Morton, Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography
    • ...that psychiatry was a "Nazi science" and that methadone, a drug used to fight heroin addiction, was originally called Adolophine after Adolf Hitler?