Addiction
liability Very High Synonyms Oxymorphone hydrazone PubChem CID 9577748 Pubchem 9577748 | ATC code none CAS Number 73697-35-5 Molar mass 315.367 g/mol ChemSpider ID 23231158 | |
Dependence
liability Physical: Guaranteed
Psychological: Very High |
Oxymorphazone is an opioid analgesic drug related to oxymorphone. Oxymorphazone is a potent and long acting μ-opioid agonist which binds irreversibly to the receptor, forming a covalent bond which prevents it from detaching once bound. This gives it an unusual pharmacological profile, and while oxymorphazone is only around half the potency of oxymorphone, with higher doses the analgesic effect becomes extremely long lasting, with a duration of up to 48 hours. However, tolerance to analgesia develops rapidly with repeated doses, as chronically activated opioid receptors are rapidly internalised by β-arrestins, similar to the results of non-covalent binding by repeated doses of agonists with extremely high binding affinity such as lofentanil.