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Where did heroin get its name?

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∙ 16y ago
Updated: 4/28/2022

Bayer, a German pharmaceutical company, named the substance it synthesized "heroin", probably from the word heroisch, German for heroic, because in field studies people using the medicine felt "heroic".

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