================================================================= This file is a part of the 1999 Hyperreal Drug Archives Snapshot. This snapshot is hosted by Erowid and will not be updated after October 1999. The information in these files may be out of date. See Erowid's Psychoactive Vaults for more current info. ================================================================= From: hick@nwu.edu (Brian Hickory) Newsgroups: alt.drugs Subject: Morphine analog candidate for blotter distribution? Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 10:41:25 -0600 Message-ID: In the course of my reading for my drug design class, I came across a drug, etorphine, listed as ~1000 times more potent than morphine. Now, it doesn't look particularly simple to make so it's probably an impractical target for the underground chemist, but I was reminded of the thread a few months ago about just what drugs could be found on blotter paper. I have no idea what a typical dose of morphine is, but I imagine that a thousandth of it is pretty small. Assuming that etorphine is orally or sublingually active, and a good substitute for popular opiates, this would seem to be a particularly convenient analog. If anyone is interested, the text references K.W. Bentley and D.G. Hardy, J. Am. Chem. Soc. _89_, 3267 (1967) and a second article appearing on p 3273 of the same. My Merck isn't handy but the drug is used to immobilize large animals, so I imagine good production techniques could be found in the literature or patents. Comments?