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Why do people call diacetylmorphine "heroin"?

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Why do people call diacetylmorphine "heroin"? "Heroin" is a genericized trademark of Bayer, just like "Aspirin" for acetylsalicylic acid.
 
Diacetylmorphine is just a shortened version of (5α,6α)-7,8-didehydro-4,5-epoxy-17-methylmorphinan-3,6-diol diacetate

People call it heroin because it's the easiest thing to call it.
 
"Heroin" just stuck, people call it other shit though.
 
Crashing said:
Diacetylmorphine is just a shortened version of (5α,6α)-7,8-didehydro-4,5-epoxy-17-methylmorphinan-3,6-diol diacetate

People call it heroin because it's the easiest thing to call it.
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Well, diacetylmorphine/diamorphine is the INN name for it.
 
Just looked it up on Wiki, and had to laugh out loud because Bayer marketed heroin as a non-addictive alternative to morphine for coughs... and then all their customers became addicted immediately.

Who in their right mind would think heroin is non-addictive, EVER?
 
Cause it makes you feel heroic, duh? But no you're right, it should just be called diamorphine.
 
Commonly used drug names don't always make the sense we'd like them to. Heroin stuck. Heroin is fine, everyone knows what's meant when someone says it.
 
ahint said:
Commonly used drug names don't always make the sense we'd like them to. Heroin stuck. Heroin is fine, everyone knows what's meant when someone says it.
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And diacetylmorphine doesn't have the same familiarity?
 
Could be worse, the media in Australia constantly labels methamphetamine as "ice" - the term is now so widespread people outside of the drug scene believe meth and ice to be two different things.
 
malakaix said:
Could be worse, the media in Australia constantly labels methamphetamine as "ice" - the term is now so widespread people outside of the drug scene believe meth and ice to be two different things.
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Why do they do that?
 
If someone called it diacetylmorphine I would be expecting a pure product.
heroin is dirty and usually cut

it's like trying to call opium morphine or peyote mescaline it's just not the same.
 
When first identified and started to be used, diamorphine aka diacetylmorphine was thought to be so good as to warrant the name, heroin, which is inspired by the word, heroine, for a female hero in much the same way that MDMA came to be known as ECSTASY by its users when it first came out.
 
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