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Benzylmorphine (Peronine) is a semi-synthetic opiate narcotic introduced to the international market in 1896 and that of the United States very shortly thereafter. It is much like codeine containing a benzyl group attached to the morphine molecule just as the methyl group creates codeine and the ethyl group creates ethylmorphine or dionine (used as a generic name for that drug just as peronine is for benzylmorphine).
