Wait till you hear about Oxycontin!
From 1898 to 1910, Bayer commercialized Heroin as a cough suppressant and morphine substitute. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/carmendrahl/2017/06/12/five-things-heroins-curious-chemistry-history/#5284c001157c …)pic.twitter.com/ve5kiYah52
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Ah, late 19th century medicine is such a wonderful place, where medicine was greatly inproving, yet also worsening, so about 40% of medicine was snake oil & another 40% would make the current opioid crisis look like a slight kerfuffle. Anyone want some coke toothache drops?pic.twitter.com/FAFaAdC4cR
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"Heroin as a morphine substitute." The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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Fentaynl cures heroin addiction... and carfentanyl cures fentaynl addiction.....
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Yeah, permanently. Pretty fortunate that the company that has made 14 billion dollars off of the manufacture and sale of 100's of millions of opioids, also owns the patent for the treatment of opioid addiction. My goodness-where would we be without them! True humanitarians.
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Bayer has a very shady history. Especially when they were a subsidiary of IG Farben.
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We should bring back those good old days. Could use me some OTC top shelf cough syrup sometimes.
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"Heroin as Morphine substitute" Um, excuse me.
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heroin is DiacetylMorphine so idk why everyone is suprised it was meant to be used as a morphine substitute as it still is in some countries, the only lie bayer put out about it was that it was a non-addictive alternative to morphine.
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I dont know, maybe cause it STILL MORPHINE!!?
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its derived FROM morphine its not "still morphine" its diacetylmorphine a completely different chemical composition it has a shorter half-life & is more lipid soluble than morphine making it easier to cross the blood-brain barrier, making a more efficient opiate for analgesia.
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Sure, it'll cure a cough, but what if you're HORSE? lol
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Morphine was quite common in cough syrups and teething medicines until the 1930's ( or late 1920's - don't recall exactly). Cocaine in many "tonics".
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Good ol days
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You say that like it's a bad thing.
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Whatever works. As long as nobody coughs, nobody gets hurt.
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They need to bring that back!
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Pharmaceutical companies are trying to, it's why we have an opioid crisis in the US.
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