Heroin-assisted treatment
Leo Sher, M.D. Heroin (diacetylmorphine, (5a,6a)-7,8-Didehydro-4,5-epoxy-17-methylmorphinan-3,6-diol diacetate (ester), diamorphine, or Diagesil®) is a semi-synthetic morphine derivative and a powerful opioid analgesic (1). Heroin was created in 1874 by Dr. Charles Romley Alder Wright, a British chemistry and physics researcher who worked at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London (2). Heroin was first marketed in […]