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Pharmaceutical Grade Opium

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Hello bluelighters! I have recently optained prescription opium. I want to say it said 10mg/mL but am not 100% sure. I have never heard of such a thing nor could I find much information regarding it. In a nutshell my question is how much of each chemical may be in this pharmaceutical grade opium? I only have about 40mL. I have more questions really but they are rather basic (just regarding my high tolerance to opiates in general) and I can judge those on my own. I just want to know if anyone has ever had, seen, or heard of this.

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Yeah, there's no way that this is "pharmaceutical grade" opium as this simply does not exist. Opium is a complex mixture of alkaloids, latex, and other natural products and is consequently not available in pure pharmaceutical grade form. How would this hypothetical pharmaceutical grade differ from any other form of natural opium ??

You more than likely have some kind of pure opiate, probably morphine or oxy/hydro. And you should DEFINITELY confirm the concentration of the solution before you decide to take any.
 
mrjefferson said:
Yeah, there's no way that this is "pharmaceutical grade" opium as this simply does not exist. Opium is a complex mixture of alkaloids, latex, and other natural products and is consequently not available in pure pharmaceutical grade form. How would this hypothetical pharmaceutical grade differ from any other form of natural opium ??

You more than likely have some kind of pure opiate, probably morphine or oxy/hydro. And you should DEFINITELY confirm the concentration of the solution before you decide to take any.
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incorrect. There is at least one US manufacturer (Marathon) that still makes a true opium product. It is by no means a "pure opiate" as you suggested, but rather a mix of morphine, codeine, and many other opiates that occur naturally on the poppy plant. the only alkaloid im aware of that they remove from the tincture is narcotine.
This opium preparation is made by taking powdered opium (which contains morphine, codeine, thebaine and many other opiates) and mixing it in ethanol. Thus, you end up with a product that resembles opium in terms of content, nearly identically.
 
straight from wiki:
The only preformulated and marketed opium tincture in the U.S. is manufactured by Marathon Pharmaceuticals.[5] Marathon produces a single formulation of opium tincture, which is deodorized (or denarcotized). Each mL contains 10 mg of anhydrous morphine (the equivalent of 100 mg of powdered opium), other opium alkaloids (except narcotine), and ethanol, 19%. It is available prepackaged in bottles of 4 ounces (118 mL) and 16 ounces (1 pint or 480 mL).
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So it could be 10mg/ml morphine

2 things that will help greatly:
1) where are you?
2)What exactly does it say on the pack (brand name, active ingredients, etc)
 
yes pharmaceutical opium does exist; though it's not often prescribed.


Opium has been used for thousands of years for many different medicinal qualities, and it's true that it's still one of the top treatments for explosive diharrea.(yikes it hurts even typing that)




not the kind of thing that's at an average black market pill dealer, usually given to old men.
 
mrjefferson said:
Yeah, there's no way that this is "pharmaceutical grade" opium as this simply does not exist.
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Not true!

For example, the european pharmacopoeia (6th edition, 2009) lists:

- standardised Opium dry extract
- Opium prepared
- Opium raw
- Opium tincture standardised

- Murphy
 
Pharmaceutical Opium is Pantopon, Omnopon. All of the main/active alkaloids in Opium, in the correct proportion, in the Hydrochloride or Sulphate salt form, in a tablet.
 
i wonder if they have a simple way to extract all the alkaloids and convert then to hcl form?

i have always wondered this i mean its not too much work to base to ph12 and pull up the alkaloids beesides morphine then bring back down to ph9 and precipitate the morphine but there has too bee some way to do it all at once

if that makes any sense
 
daddysgone said:
incorrect. There is at least one US manufacturer (Marathon) that still makes a true opium product. It is by no means a "pure opiate" as you suggested, but rather a mix of morphine, codeine, and many other opiates that occur naturally on the poppy plant. the only alkaloid im aware of that they remove from the tincture is narcotine.
This opium preparation is made by taking powdered opium (which contains morphine, codeine, thebaine and many other opiates) and mixing it in ethanol. Thus, you end up with a product that resembles opium in terms of content, nearly identically.
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Swim has been dealing with chronic abdominal pain for a few years now. He will be actually picking up a prescription of this tincture of opium made by Marathon tomorrow. I'm wondering if it is injectable. Swim cannot find any info about it online. What swim does know is that the cost is $650 for a small bottle.
 
Yeah, there's no way that this is "pharmaceutical grade" opium as this simply does not exist. Opium is a complex mixture of alkaloids, latex, and other natural products and is consequently not available in pure pharmaceutical grade form. How would this hypothetical pharmaceutical grade differ from any other form of natural opium ??
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As I recall it is standardized to contain set levels of alkaloids equivalent to 10% morphine w/w. The amount of codeine, papervine etc may differ from batch to batch but the morphine content is always 10%. It's used to make things like Gees linctus or J Collis Browne's mixture which must contain a set amount of morphine per 5ml and you can only do this if you start with opium of a fixed morphine content (raw opium contains anything from 12 - 20% morphine w/w).

Most natural products made up to 'pharmaceutical grade' are standardized to contain a fixed amount of the main active alkaloid/glycoside etc


the "squill" portion will make you very ill in a large enough dose...
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Squill contains cardiotoxic glycosides and is added to prevent abuse (much like the atropine added to Lomotil to prevent the diphenoxylate being abused)
 
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