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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2023-04-01
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Series: | Translational Psychiatry |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-023-02406-5 |