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| Other names | Oxymorphone hydrazone |
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| Formula | C17H21N3O3 |
| Molar mass | 315.373 g·mol−1 |
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Oxymorphazone is anopioidanalgesic drug related tooxymorphone. Oxymorphazone is a potent and long actingμ-opioidagonist which binds irreversibly to the receptor, forming acovalent bond which prevents it from detaching once bound.[1][2] 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 when administeredintraventricularly.[3] However,tolerance to analgesia develops rapidly with repeated doses,[4][5][6] as chronically activated opioid receptors are rapidlyinternalised byβ-arrestins, similar to the results of non-covalent binding by repeated doses of agonists with extremely highbinding affinity such aslofentanil.[7][8]