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DIAMORPHINE has hit the headlines after “Dr Opiate” Jane Barton was accused of overdosing up to 833 of her patients in the 1990s. The painkiller is used to relieve severe pain, but in heavy doses can ...

A ‘tired and stressed’ family doctor deliberately hastened the death of a terminally ill man by giving him an overdose of painkillers, a tribunal heard. William Bassett gave a lethal injection of ...

THE world now knows that Harold Shipman killed patients by injecting them with a deadly dose of diamorphine - but prior to tests investigators didn't dare hope the medic used such a visible poison.

Hundreds of people addicted to heroin in the UK are benefitting from a free legal supply of the drug, new figures show. The Independent can reveal that 280 people received a prescription for ...

Patients will inject the diamorphine in the mirrored treatment area under the strict observation of nursing staff Scotland's first scheme for giving drug addicts pharmaceutical grade heroin is to open ...

Two people were arrested after a cocaine and diamorphine seizure in Dublin on Tuesday. Gardaí discovered the drugs, worth about €15,200, in a house in the Dublin 1 area. The haul included diamorphine ...

The UK has experienced many shortages of essential medicines, especially since the beginning of the pandemic. The latest shortage is of diamorphine, a painkiller that can be prescribed to drug users ...