Seriously?!?! Compared to what—Ebola?
I highly doubt you can defend your statement!
Heroin was initially marketed in the United States as a pain killer for children.
Heroin was initially marketed in the United States as a pain killer for children.
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*Sigh* “Heroin in and of itself is not that bad”
Seriously? Do you consider addicting children to heroin not that bad? Benevolent thought...Bayer did not know what they were doing (likely). Malevolent thought...Bayer did and did not care...Just because it was available (like morphine, opium and other opiates), that does not mean that “Heroin in and of itself is not that bad.”
From article:
Obviously, it quickly became apparent that Bayer’s claims of the drug not being addictive were completely false, with reports popping up within months of its widespread release. Despite this, it continued to sell well in the medical field. Finally, in 1913, after the number of Heroin addicts began to skyrocket and it became likely that it would shortly be banned in many countries, Bayer decided to stop producing the drug.
BTW, they also poured opium down babies’ throats...
https://io9.gizmodo.com/5896669/when-opium-was-for-newborns-and-bayer-sold-heroin
Heroin, outside the body, was unquestionably different than morphine. Unfortunately, when heroin crosses the blood-brain barrier, the body metabolizes it to morphine. In fact, heroin gets into the brain quicker, thanks to its particular solubility, than morphine itself. The company had just worked out a way for someone to get a high faster.
Like opium, just because heroin was introduced as a pain killer for kids, did not make it safe or “not that bad.” It was bad then, it was bad 60s and 70s.
There are many more articles...So please don’t argue that because it was marketed as kids’ cough syrup does not make “Heroin in and of itself mot that bad” It is bad!
Incorrect: Freidrich Bayer Fabriken of Germany was trying to create codeine from morphine. Instead, the experiment produced an acetylated form of morphine one to two times more potent than morphine. The head of Bayer research coined the name Heroin, from the greek root word heros, which was to mean the drug was “heroic”. Bayer scientists were not the first to make heroin, but made it large scale quantities and commercialized Heroin as their brand— as a “Sedative for Coughing” (and this was not directed at children, which Paregoric, an opium distillate, was— usu. for diarrhea)
So, from 1898 through to 1910, diamorphine was marketed under the trademark name Heroin as a non-addictive morphine substitute and cough suppressant. NOn-addictive— imagine that- and they marketed this with personal injection kits with syringes and mixing vials—incredible. The same Bayer that, with I.G.Farben enslaved millions of Germans from death camps and factory camps, notably in Auschwitz II. What a nice group of helping doctors.