Heroin and its metabolites: relevance to heroin use disorder

Abstract Heroin is an opioid agonist commonly abused for its rewarding effects. Since its synthesis at the end of the nineteenth century, its popularity as a recreational drug has ebbed and flowed. In the last three decades, heroin use has increased again, and yet the pharmacology of heroin is still...

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Main Authors: Michele Stanislaw Milella, Ginevra D’Ottavio, Silvana De Pirro, Massimo Barra, Daniele Caprioli, Aldo Badiani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2023-04-01
Series:Translational Psychiatry
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-023-02406-5