10 things you didn’t know about heroin
Posted by Josh Taylor / July 29, 2014
In 1898, a new wonder drug hit the market. It was put out by a company you might recognize––Bayer. That’s when it got the name we call it by now, which incidentally means “hero” in German. Before that, it was called tetra acetyl morphine, which definitely doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Shockingly, heroin was originally marketed for kids. Bayer opponents blasted the company for this marketing in 2011. Considering contemporaries thought that heroin was less addicting than morphine. This partially explains why most addicts were middle- and upper-class women. See more interesting facts about heroin at the full article.
Full story at Alternet.
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