Human Health And Disease Question 224
From unripe opium fruit, the opium is extracted. From this, which one of the following groups of narcotic drugs are also prepared
Options:
A) Hashish, morphine, heroin
B) Hashish, codeine, pethidine and methadone
C) Codeine, pethidine, methadone, morphine and heroin
D) Codeine, pethidine, methadone, and cocaine
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Answer:
Correct Answer: C
Solution:
Opium contains some 25 alkaloids; the more important are morphine, narcotine, codeine papaverine, thebaine and narceine.
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