PALLIATIVE CARE TIPS Issue 17 Edited by Mehrnoush Mirhosseini l, MD, Palliative Care Consultant, Community Palliative Care Consult Team , Hydromorphone, also known as dihydromorphinone, and sold under the brand name Dilaudid, among others, is a centrally acting pain medication of the opioid class. It is made from morphine. Drugs.com provides accurate and independent information on more than 24,000 prescription drugs, over-the-counter medicines and natural products. DESCRIPTION. DILAUDID (hydromorphone hydrochloride), a hydrogenated ketone of morphine, is an opioid agonist. DILAUDID Tablets are supplied in 2 mg, 4 mg, and 8 mg tablets for oral administration. Hydromorphone official prescribing information for healthcare professionals. Includes: indications, dosage, adverse reactions, pharmacology and more. NDA 19-034/S-018-Label Page 1 DILAUDID® and DILAUDID-HP® INJECTION 1 mg/mL, 2 mg/mL, 4mg/mL, and 10 mg/mL (hydromorphone hydrochloride) C-II Carfentanil or carfentanyl is a structural analog of the synthetic opioid analgesic fentanyl. Short acting and with fast onset it has, weight for weight, around hundred times stronger effects than fentanyl and thousands of times stronger than heroin. Fentanyl is up to 100 times more potent than morphine and many times that of heroin. Drug users generally don’t know when their heroin is laced with fentanyl, so when they inject their usual. The most common side effects of oxycodone and hydromorphone are similar. Hydromorphone is very potent, so its side effects can be more intense. The naturally occurring opiates (plant alkaloids derived from the opium poppy) as well as synthetic (man-made) and semisynthetic opioids are considered to be narcotic drugs, which include both legally prescribed and illicit varieties.