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- From: hick@nwu.edu (Brian Hickory)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: Morphine analog candidate for blotter distribution?
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 10:41:25 -0600
- Message-ID: <hick-1201951041250001@rex.mech.nwu.edu>
-
- In the course of my reading for my drug design class, I came across a
- drug, etorphine, listed as ~1000 times more potent than morphine. Now, it
- doesn't look particularly simple to make so it's probably an impractical
- target for the underground chemist, but I was reminded of the thread a few
- months ago about just what drugs could be found on blotter paper. I have
- no idea what a typical dose of morphine is, but I imagine that a
- thousandth of it is pretty small. Assuming that etorphine is orally or
- sublingually active, and a good substitute for popular opiates, this would
- seem to be a particularly convenient analog.
-
- If anyone is interested, the text references K.W. Bentley and D.G. Hardy,
- J. Am. Chem. Soc. _89_, 3267 (1967) and a second article appearing on p
- 3273 of the same. My Merck isn't handy but the drug is used to immobilize
- large animals, so I imagine good production techniques could be found in
- the literature or patents.
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- Comments?
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