| All were unsuspecting, mostly middle-aged or elderly women, and all trusted him as he gave them deadly injections of the painkiller diamorphine. |
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| Since diamorphine and cocaine have a bitter taste, gin, brandy, tincture of orange, honey, and syrups are used to mask it. |
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| Industry figures indicate that the average monthly demand for diamorphine is approximately 640,000 ampoules of varying strengths. |
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| Number Four heroin from the golden triangle of South-East Asia is nearly always off-white, almost pure diamorphine. |
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| In 1924 a United States law banning licit diamorphine was passed, but this was often ignored by local authorities. |
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| A second electrocardiograph was attached and an intravenous cannula inserted, and I was given some diamorphine. |
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| The nine-inch wide dark grey box has a combination lock and contained five doses each of adrenaline, pethidine and diamorphine. |
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| It emerged he had obtained huge quantities of the drug diamorphine over at least five years, on one occasion securing enough to kill 400 people. |
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| The Government says it will help patients get quicker access to medicines, except controlled drugs such as diamorphine which will be exempted. |
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| Epidural diamorphine was found to be effective in a double-blind study of primigravidae. |
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| There were traces of diamorphine on some scales and a bottle of methadone which had been prescribed to someone else. |
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| He was also able to stockpile vast amounts of diamorphine the clinical name for heroin which he had either falsely prescribed or taken from cancer patients after their deaths. |
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| Because the pharmacy had no pethidine, the general practitioner obtained an ampoule of diamorphine containing 100 mg and administered the whole dose intramuscularly. |
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| An inquest heard in November how an emergency doctor accidentally gave her an overdose of the painkiller diamorphine for a migraine after he misread a drug label. |
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| Talwin can antagonize the effects of opiate agonists such as diamorphine, morphine, and heroin and is itself antagonized by naloxone. |
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| Nasal diamorphine is evidently effective, safe, and easy to administer. |
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| Oscar is now on an extremely high dose of diamorphine, more than nursing staff have known adults to need. |
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| Inside was a clutter of prescription pads and a carton containing a collection of diamorphine syrettes and a dozen ampoules of pethidine. |
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| I was initially on two 140mg injections of diamorphine a day and up to 100ml of methadone linctus, whereas now I am only injecting 80mg once a day but still take 80ml of linctus. |
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| Paracetamol, morphine, diamorphine, metoclopramide and beclomethasone were the drugs most likely to be the subject of error. |
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| Even more disturbing is that all sorts of warning signs the abnormally high death rate among his patients, the unusually high amounts of morphine and diamorphine he was prescribing went unremarked. |
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| Stephen Vivian Charles Fish, 43, of Tarwick Drive, St Mellons, Cardiff, pleaded guilty to possessing diamorphine. |
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| Rasul was charged with possession of 161 miligrammes of diamorphine and a quantity of skunk cannabis on May 23 last year. |
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| She is accused of the attempted murder of James Byrne, 76, May Taylor, 88, and Frank Owen,92,by administering overdoses of diamorphine. |
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| He was searched and found to be in possession of 19 wraps of diamorphine and 23 wraps of crack cocaine. |
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| Mr Gray was given ten times the normal dose of diamorphine by Dr Daniel Ubani, who admitted only having a few hours' sleep before beginning work for a Cambridgeshire trust. |
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| Diamorphine is a semi-synthetic derivative of morphine with similar pharmacological properties but with greater potency. |
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| Diamorphine is routinely used to treat cancer patients, as well as individuals suffering from heart problems. |
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| Diamorphine hydrochloride is highly soluble in water, facilitating its preparation at a high concentration. |
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| The haul also included Pethidine tablets, Diamorphine, Concerta XL, Equasym, Medikinet tablets, Ritalin tablets and Palexia tablets. |
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