Diamorphine is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Diamorphine in a sentence
Diamorphine meaning
The BAN name for the drug heroin.
Using Diamorphine
- The main meaning on this page is: The BAN name for the drug heroin.
- In the example corpus, diamorphine often appears in combinations such as: of diamorphine, diamorphine is, diamorphine and.
Context around Diamorphine
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 5 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Diamorphine
- In this selection, "diamorphine" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, heroin, administer, handed and almost stand out and add context to how "diamorphine" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include use of diamorphine and advantage of diamorphine over morphine. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "diamorphine" sits close to words such as abad, abovementioned and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with diamorphine
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Tablet and powder forms of diamorphine are considerably cheaper. (9 words)
Possession of diamorphine without a prescription is an arrestable offence. (10 words)
Healthcare workers will supervise the addicts as they ‘self-administer’ diamorphine. (11 words)
Unemployed Clive McCowan, 44, of Millrace Park, Saggart, was charged with unlawful possession of cannabis, cocaine, and mainly heroin (diamorphine) and having the drugs for sale or supply at his home address on Thursday night. (35 words)
I’ve tried a number of traditionally addictive substances — cigarettes during a strange few years in the army, alcohol in immense binges as a medical student, heroin, also known as diamorphine, after an operation. (34 words)
Most commercial opiate screening tests cross-react appreciably with these metabolites, as well as with other biotransformation products likely to be present following usage of street-grade diamorphine such as 6-acetylcodeine and codeine. (34 words)
Example sentences (19)
The advantage of diamorphine over morphine is that diamorphine is more fat soluble and therefore more potent by injection, so smaller doses of it are needed for the same analgesic effect.
The 36-year-old admitted that on April 28 in Wrexham, he had in his possession a quantity of diamorphine.
I’ve tried a number of traditionally addictive substances — cigarettes during a strange few years in the army, alcohol in immense binges as a medical student, heroin, also known as diamorphine, after an operation.
Unemployed Clive McCowan, 44, of Millrace Park, Saggart, was charged with unlawful possession of cannabis, cocaine, and mainly heroin (diamorphine) and having the drugs for sale or supply at his home address on Thursday night.
Healthcare workers will supervise the addicts as they ‘self-administer’ diamorphine.
In the first scheme of its kind in the UK, users of the class A drug in will be handed diamorphine.
Tablet and powder forms of diamorphine are considerably cheaper.
The city's health agency has applied for $6 million from Health Canada to allow for the safe distribution of diamorphine — a narcotic painkiller more commonly known as heroin.
Although there is no longer a problem with the manufacturing of diamorphine in the UK, some hospitals there have continued to use morphine.
Another harm reduction measure employed for example in Europe, Canada and Australia are safe injection sites where users can inject diamorphine and cocaine under the supervision of medically trained staff.
For safety reasons, many UK National Health Service hospitals now only permit the administration of intravenous diamorphine in designated areas.
Heroin was ranked 1st in dependence, physical harm, and social harm. citation Harm reduction is a public health philosophy that seeks to reduce the harms associated with the use of diamorphine.
In the United States, diamorphine is a Schedule I drug according to the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, making it illegal to possess without a DEA license.
It is sometimes thought that heroin users can walk into a clinic and walk out with a prescription, but the process takes many weeks before a prescription for diamorphine is issued.
Most commercial opiate screening tests cross-react appreciably with these metabolites, as well as with other biotransformation products likely to be present following usage of street-grade diamorphine such as 6-acetylcodeine and codeine.
Possession of diamorphine for the purpose of trafficking is an indictable offense and subject to imprisonment for life.
Possession of diamorphine without a prescription is an arrestable offence.
Recreational Diamorphine, almost always still called by its original trade name of heroin in non-medical settings, is used as a recreational drug for the intense euphoria it induces.
The aim of this program was to maintain the health of the user by avoiding medical problems stemming from the illicit use of diamorphine.
Common combinations with diamorphine
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of diamorphine 9×
- diamorphine is 3×
- diamorphine and 2×
- diamorphine in 2×