Is heroin legally used as medicine?

my classmate and i are researching heroin. my website says it's used as a pain remedy and her website says it's illegal for anything, even medicinal purposes.
which one's right??

Heroin is a Schedule I Controlled Substance in the US, requiring a special license to be obtained (for research purposes only). It has no accepted medical use in the US. It was used as a pain medication in the past, but was replaced by less addicting medications.

I believe it is illegal for anything....at least in the USA.

Small amounts of Heroin are used just like Morphine for Pain. In most cases it is used by groups such as Hospice when someone is dying and not expected to live. Since it is a strong drug and addictive it is not used for most healthy people.

Heroin base is a greyish-white powder containing 45鈥?0 per cent heroin directly after the production. Heroin base is sometimes called 鈥榖rown heroin鈥? In order to inject heroin, acid has to be added in the same way as for morphine base. In the illegal production of heroin, the goal is to produce heroin hydrochloride (鈥榩ure heroin鈥? by adding hydrochloride acid to heroin base.
The resulting compound is heroin hydrochloride. The chemical composition of heroin is diacetylmorphine. Heroin hydrochloride is usually purer than heroinbase, i.e. it has a higher concentration of the intoxicating substance. Heroin hydrochloride is a water soluble powder and therefore needs no mixing with acid before injection.
Heroin was used in medical practice during the first decades of the 20 th century, but in most countries this practice has been prohibited and heroin replaced by other opiates. In the United Kingdom, heroin (diamorphine) is still permitted in medical practice for pain relief of terminally ill patients.

Heroin, no.

Opiates, from which heroin is made, absolutely.

Some of the most widely used pain meds are opiates.

Heroin is not legal for any medical use in the USA. It is used overseas for pain relief in some countries, similar to how morphine is used.