Cychlorphine
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Cychlorphine is a chemical compound which has been sold as a
designer drug A designer drug is a structural or functional analog of a controlled substance that has been designed to mimic the pharmacological effects of the original drug, while avoiding classification as illegal and/or detection in standard drug tests. ...
, reported in five European countries since 2024, and in the USA. It is similar in chemical structure to known
opioid Opioids are a class of Drug, drugs that derive from, or mimic, natural substances found in the Papaver somniferum, opium poppy plant. Opioids work on opioid receptors in the brain and other organs to produce a variety of morphine-like effects, ...
agonists such as
brorphine Brorphine is a piperidine-based opioid analgesic compound. Brorphine was originally discovered in a 2018 paper investigating functionally biased opioid compounds, with the intention of finding safer analgesics that produce less respiratory depre ...
and spirochlorphine, and is claimed to be an opioid with similar or slightly higher potency than
fentanyl Fentanyl is a highly potent synthetic piperidine opioid primarily used as an analgesic (pain medication). It is 30 to 50 times more Potency (pharmacology), potent than heroin and 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine. Its primary Medici ...
, but no pharmacological data for cychlorphine has been published.Janssen PAJ. Derivatives of benzimidazolinyl piperidine. Patent US3318900
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Bezitramide Bezitramide is an opioid analgesic. Bezitramide itself is a prodrug which is readily hydrolyzed in the gastrointestinal tract to its active metabolite, despropionyl-bezitramide. Bezitramide was discovered at Janssen Pharmaceutica in 1961. It is ...


References

{{reflist 4-Chlorophenyl compounds Piperidines Benzimidazoles Ureas Nitriles