Heroin is?: (A) Cocaine, (B) Opioid, (C) Dhatura, (D) Cannabis
Answer is B. Heroin is diacetyl morphine (semisynthetic form of opium) Classification of opiods: (1) Natural: morphine, codeine.(2) Semi-synthetic: heroin, hydromorphone, oxymorphone, oxycodone. (3) Synthetic: meperidine, methadone, paregoric, diphenoxylate, fentanyl, propoxyphene,levarphanol tarate.