Talk:Pseudomorphine

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Psychoactive or not?

So, is this compound psychoactive, or is it non-psychoactive? I really strongly feel that the article should state this. The first sentence should say "Pseudomorphine (also known as oxydimorphine or dehydromorphine) is an (in)active, natural dimerisation product of the morphine molecule"

I know some of you will think that's a funny/dumb question considering a) what the name 'pseudomorphine' implies, & b) its chemistry...it's not likely that thing can even fit into a receptor without the reverse end bumping into something & screwing the whole thing up...whereas individually, either end on their own could probably do it. But I still kinda feel like when it comes to the psychoactivity of analogues of psychoactive compounds, all relevant information should be made obviously available. That is, it should be obvious even to somebody who has absolutely zero understanding & is completely ignorant of chemistry, pharmacology, neurology, or science in general (seeing as how it's an encyclopedia).

(Psychonaut25 - 13375p34k / C0n7r1b5 9:33 PM EST, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

Update: Ok, I did a bit of research & found this resource; apparently it had already been used as a reference for this article, but for a different piece of information (It was first described by Pelletier in 1835). In any case, according to the source, pseudomorphine is non-psychoactive... so I added the word "inactive" to the first paragraph (without its own reference, since the source had already been used later in that same paragraph). I'm skeptical as to whether or not anyone (a human being, as opposed to it being given to animals) has ever even taken it, but I think it's pretty safe to assume that it's non-psychoactive.

(Psychonaut25 - 13375p34k / C0n7r1b5 12:33 AM EST, 15 September 2013 (UTC)