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The Pharmaceutical Company Bayer and the Invention of the "Non-Addictive" Drug Heroin

  • July 31, 2014
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  • Heroin, which acts as a sedative and respiratory depressant, worked well in suppressing coughing fits, making it a medical breakthrough in the early 1900s, when tuberculosis and pneumonia were among the leading causes of death

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