Hydromorphone

Description

 RESTRICTED PRODUCT 

Schedule 8 (S8) Licence required.

This product requires an Australian government issued permit to hold or possess.

A certified reference standard suitable for use as a starting material in calibrators or controls for a variety of LC/MS or GC/MS applications from forensic analysis, clinical toxicology, and pain prescription monitoring to urine drug testing and pharmaceutical research. Hydromorphone, marketed under brand names including Palladone and Dilaudid, is a very potent opioid analgesic. The drug is often used medicinally as an alternative to morphine for treatment of pain or as a cough suppressant for painful coughing resulting from continued bronchial irritation.