Suspect this was invented by Jo Nesbo in Phantom
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This appears to be a proprietary name for the bronchodilator salbutimol, used in the Thai market. However, the Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbo refers to a drug of abuse called violin in his book The Phantom (2012). There does not seem to be any reference in the literature to this usage.
ikuto's violin song is called tsukiyo no violinist!!!
In the Live version of Rent, they refer to her drug of choice as "smack" which in the drug world is slang for Heroin.
A bass violin is another name for the double bass - the largest stringed instrument of the violin family.