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Why Bayer? By your first sentence I thought you were going to say Purdue. I haven't read anything before about Bayer and opiates.
by walthamstow 4y ago
Why Bayer? By your first sentence I thought you were going to say Purdue. I haven't read anything before about Bayer and opiates.
- andsoitis 4y agoBayer invented heroin. “A century ago, scientists at a German pharmaceutical firm investigated a chemical modification to morphine that made it more palatable as a cough suppressant. The Bayer Co., predecessor to today’s pharmaceutical giant, marketed its popular new remedy as “Heroin.” —- https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/from-cough-medicine-to-deadly-addiction-a-century/ https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/from-cough-medicine-t...
- walthamstow 4y agoThanks. I was only off base by about a century :)
- datavirtue 4y agoAs in, mom is a hero for giving morphine to her kids.