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  2. Poppy straw - Wikipedia

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    Concentrated poppy straw, consisting mainly of the crushed capsule without the seeds, [4] soon became a valuable source of morphine. Today, concentrate of poppy straw is a major source of many opiates and other alkaloids.

  3. Calcium morphenate - Wikipedia

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    When poppy straw concentrate or opium latex is dissolved in hot water and the calcium base is added, calcium morphenate is formed. Treatment with a weak acid such as ammonium chloride then causes morphine freebase to precipitate, leaving codeine and other alkaloids of the plant in solution. Manufacture of heroin from morphine

  4. Morphine - Wikipedia

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    The primary source of morphine is isolation from poppy straw of the opium poppy. [21] In 2013, approximately 523 tons of morphine were produced. [22] Approximately 45 tons were used directly for pain, an increase of 400% over the last twenty years. [22] Most use for this purpose was in the developed world. [22]

  5. Thebaine - Wikipedia

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    This alkaloid is biosynthetically related to salutaridine, oripavine, morphine and reticuline. [6] In 2012 there was an amounted 146,000 kilograms of thebaine produced. [7] In 2013, Australia was the main producer of poppy straw rich in thebaine, followed by Spain and then France.

  6. List of Schedule II controlled substances (U.S.) - Wikipedia

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    Concentrate of poppy straw (the crude extract of poppy straw in either liquid, solid or powder form which contains the phenanthrene alkaloids of the opium poppy) [8] 9737 opiate Alfentanil [9] 9010 opiate Alphaprodine [7] [note 1] 9020 opiate Anileridine [7] [note 1] 9800 opiate Bezitramide [7] [note 1] 9273 opiate Bulk dextropropoxyphene (non ...

  7. Opiate - Wikipedia

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    Harvesting the poppy pod. A chart outlining the structural features that define opiates and opioids, including distinctions between semi-synthetic and fully synthetic opioid structures. An opiate is an alkaloid substance derived from opium (or poppy straw). [1]

  8. Two Indian companies indicted in US for importing ingredients ...

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    Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid about 50 times more powerful than heroin and 100 times more powerful than morphine. Opioids accounted for about 82,000 U.S. deaths in 2022, ten times the number in ...

  9. List of opioids - Wikipedia

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    Toggle Opium and poppy straw derivatives subsection. 1.1 Crude opiate extracts whole opium products. 1.2 Natural opiates. ... Morphine family 14-Hydroxymorphine: