But there is evidence that heroin crosses the blood-brain barrier better than morphine; thus there may be a physiologic basis for its apparent superiority in some patients. The British use it, and we must assume that they know something about what they're doing.
Patients are not machines, they react differently to different drugs. Withholding a potentially useful therapeutic drug because it is more addicting than another seems foolish. Withholding a pain-relieving drug from a terminally ill patient for fear of addicting the patient is a classic exam-ple of the cruelty of misguided moral-ity. GEOFFREY RICHSTONE, M.D. New York, March 10, 1988
Under the name diamorphine, it (heroin) is a legally prescribed controlled drug in the United Kingdom. It is available for prescription to long-term users in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany and Denmark alongside psycho-social care
No matter what the drug, the risk for abuse of the drug and the system is always there. I've known people that could do most drugs all night every night, only to see them lose it all on prescription pills- mainly oxy.
