New estimates of problem opiate use in Ireland.
Journal: HRB National Drugs Library (Health Research Board)
Year: 2018

In December, 2017 the National Advisory Committee on Drugs and Alcohol (NACDA) published the findings of the third study estimating the prevalence of problematic opiate use in Ireland. 1 An opiate is a drug containing opium or any of its derivatives that acts as a sedative and narcotic.Examples include heroin, methadone, morphine, codeine, hydrocodone, fentanyl and tramadol.Heroin is synthesised from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seed pod of the Asian opium poppy p