UKMi Q&A xx - SPS

Diamorphine and Morphine. Morphine is the most widely used opioid for pain management and is the standard against which other opioids are compared (6). Diamorphine is di-acetylated morphine which is rapidly metabolised to morphine and 6-monoacetyl-morphine. Subsequently it behaves in a similar way to morphine (7). ................
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