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Kind of a difficult question to answer. Opium, morphine, and laudanum have been used to get high for centuries, so when heroin hit the market as a cough suppressant and "non-addictive morphine substitute"...it probably didn't take people very long to figure out that it could be used for non-medical purposes. Heroin was first synthesized in 1874 and was completely illegal in the US by 1924; take your answer from that.

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the hydrochloride of diacetylmorphine was discovered by acetylation of morphine, its ten times more effective than morphine or codeine...The Bayer Company started the production of heroin in 1898 on a basic commercial scale..the first drug rats used made heroine?boy so promising that they stated heroin was a wonder drug..and after awhile the regular tested patience develoed a tolerance that soon became heroin addicts...n truth is by the time it hit middle America n so forth pple were already addicted to the same high but diffrent form..,.that's whats up ay\

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Heroin was an accidental discovery by Bayer pharmaceutical company. They were trying to acetylate morphine to produce codeine, but instead it yielded heroin or Diacetylmorphine. Though it was independently synthesized earlier, the Bayer corporation was responsible for its marketing and gave it the name "Heroin." It was originally sold as a NON-ADDICTIVE substitute for morphine and as a cough suppressant. Obviously, this was a huge mistake, as it is extremely addictive.

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household cough medicine in the early 20th century no lie

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it was first used in Afghanistan because that's where it was made. answered by:shyquavious Gibson and david gambrel

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In early Europe as a medicine in the Orient to get high also to meditate to be calm and one with their world

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1898, I think.

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as a remedy to morphine addiction...

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Who was heroin discovered by?

C.R. Alder Wright first synthesized diamorphine (heroin), in 1874. Felix Hoffman re-synthesized it in 1897 while working for Bayer (the makers of Aspirin). The company marketed it as a cough suppressant, and called it heroin because some of their employees claimed it made them feel "heroic".


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