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Chart is wrong

Diacetylmorphine is most certainly not an opiate as it is not an alkaloid of the opium poppy plant. Opiates are the natural compounds found in the opium poppy while everything else is either a semi-synthetic opioid (one of the alkaloids was used as the reactant during synthesis) or a fully synthetic opioid (an opioid product that was created using non-alkaloidal reactants). Diacetylmorphine is a semisynthetic opioid. The word itself literally means "like an opiate". 80.187.66.135 (talk) 15:59, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just wanted to second this. Heroin is clearly semi-synthetic. I’m sure lots of people view this page, this needs to be changed I’m just not that familiar with editing. 96.255.209.251 (talk) 02:48, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: Introduction to Policy Analysis - Summer Session24

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— Assignment last updated by Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:17, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article should be linked with other articles closely related to the subject

Issues:

"Big Pharma" (article is "Big Pharma Conspiracy theories") is the most likely used term in media and science

Wiki decided to distinct between "Big Pharma" (conspiracy) and the "Pharma Industry" (non-conspiracy)

Article does not mention Heroine, Fentanyl etc. despite Opioids are exactly that (divided in natural Opium and synthetic products); it's once huge class that is artificially chunked

Opioid Crisis is neither mentioned in both, misleading users.

My additions in the discussion sections/talk:

Talk:Big Pharma conspiracy theories#Article is deviating from the origina of Big Pharmy and classifies everything that criticizes "the" Pharma Industry (most discuss happens here, as it's the first post; contains a in-depth explanation)

Talk:Pharmaceutical industry#Opioid Crisis, Opium Wars & Pharma Industry Companies

Sadly, the Pharma article does not link or mention the Opioid Crisis (but mentions Opioids with the term "Opium"), despite it was Pharma Purdue (Sackler's family) and many other companies of the (Big) Pharma Industry involved.

HubertSchuf (talk) 17:12, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Evaluation of the Article

I thought it included some quality information and was unbiased for the most part. However, I think some more info on the growth of fentanyl related deaths should be added since this has been a large issue in America recently.

Cjs2614 (talk) 17:42, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]