Pyrrolidinylthiambutene
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Pyrrolidinylthiambutene is an opioid
Opioid
An opioid is a psychoactive chemical that works by binding to opioid receptors, which are found principally in the central and peripheral nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract...

 analgesic
Analgesic
An analgesic is any member of the group of drugs used to relieve pain . The word analgesic derives from Greek an- and algos ....

 drug from the thiambutene
Thiambutene
The Thiambutenes are a family of opioid analgesic drugs developed at the British research laboratory of Burroughs-Wellcome in the late 1940s.The parent compound thiambutene has no analgesic effects, but several compounds from this group are analgesics with around the same potency as...

 family with around 3/4 of the potency of morphine
Morphine
Morphine is a potent opiate analgesic medication and is considered to be the prototypical opioid. It was first isolated in 1804 by Friedrich Sertürner, first distributed by same in 1817, and first commercially sold by Merck in 1827, which at the time was a single small chemists' shop. It was more...

. It would be considered an illegal controlled substance analogue
Federal Analog Act
The Federal Analog Act, , is a controversial section of the United States Controlled Substances Act which allowed any chemical "substantially similar" to a controlled substance listed in Schedule I or II to be treated as if it were also listed in those schedules, but only if intended for human...

in some countries such as the USA, Australia and New Zealand, but is legal in countries not possessing a controlled-substances-analog-act equivalent.
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