What drugs are like heroin?

Answer 1

Heroin is not a category of drugs, but a specific drug The name "Heroin" actually originated as a brand name for diacetylmorphine (also known as diamorphine), an opiate analgesic chemically derived from morphine. The drug, marketed as "Heroin", was used widely enough in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that the brand name eventually passed into common usage as the name for all diacetlymorphine manufactured, such as tissues are often referred to as Kleenex regardless of band Other opiates are morphine, hydrocodone(Vicodin), oxycodone(OxyContin or Percocet), fentanly, hydromorhone, and methadone

Answer 2

There is no drug quite like heroin. Heroin is an opiate (meaning, it is made from the poppy plant), and there are other opiates, like opium, morphine, oxycodone, and hydrocodone, but they don't quite produce the same level of intense, absolute euphoria that heroin does. There are also other depressants (meaning, drugs that slow down your central nervous system), like benzodiazepines (Xanax and Valium), but they don't even come close to producing the intense, absolute euphoria that heroin does.

Answer 3

Pure, lab-grade heroin (diacetyl morphine) itself should have no other drugs in it. However, black tar heroin doesn't get fully acetylated due to the manufacture process used. Clandestine heroin producers use the Wright-Beckett process, which doesn't require complex lab equipment nor high purity chemicals. That process produces a crude and unrefined opiate product.

So black tar heroin will also contain things such as 6-monoacetylmorphine and 3-monoacetylmorphine.

Answer 4

A painkiller

Answer 5

PCP is one.