Another word for heroin

Various non-official preparations of morphine are in use, such as dionin, heroin, glycaphorm and peronin.

The drug " heroin " is a diacetylmorphine hydrochloride.

Mommsen in Heroin, xvi.

In the cough of phthisis minute doses are of service, but in this particular disease morphine is frequently better replaced by codeine or by heroin, which checks irritable coughs without the narcotism following upon the administration of morphine.

Damon had appeared in eleven other films before winning his first Oscar, but it was his role as a heroin addict veteran in 1996's Courage Under Fire that won him the respect and admiration of many powerhouse actors.