Bayer was trying to find a non-addictive substitute for morphine. Heroin wasn't it, but they marketed it anyway. They named it that from "heroic."
It didn't become a prescription-required substance in the US until nearly twenty years after Bayer invented it, and it took another ten before the US made it Schedule I (basically, unobtainable legally for any purpose), in 1924.
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Date: 2010-10-04 10:10 pm (UTC)It didn't become a prescription-required substance in the US until nearly twenty years after Bayer invented it, and it took another ten before the US made it Schedule I (basically, unobtainable legally for any purpose), in 1924.
Yes!
Date: 2010-10-05 12:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-05 01:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-05 08:59 pm (UTC)I knew that heroin was a Bayer trademark, but I didn't know it was prescribed for coughs.
YES
Date: 2010-10-06 04:08 am (UTC)