Are percocets made with synthetic heroin?
What the other person said is wrong. Percocet it Oxycodone and acetaminophen. Oxycodone is the opiate (the narcotic). It is a semi-synthetic opiate made with the naturally occurring opioid thebaine and codeine, found in opium. So a chemist alters thebaine to make oxycodone. It is called semi-synthetic because it has a natural chemical “base” but then the compound is slightly altered. Heroin (diacetylmorphine) is also semi-synthetic and a derivative of morphine. The technical name of heroin, diacetylmorphine has morphine in its name because of the chemical similarities (Heroin breaks down into Morphine). The best known synthetic (completely man made) opiates are Methadone, Demerol, and Dextropropoxyphene (Darvon/Darvicet). These drugs have no chemical similarites to morphine, codeine, thebaine, or any other drugs in opium. So Percocet is not in any way heroin. They are both opiates but that is it. However, the Oxycodone in Percocet is one of the most powerful opiates. It is more/less as
