From the 11/27 Show - Heroin is for Heroes and OxyContin is for Undertreated Pain
Originally Posted by larry
It appears Purdue Pharma took their lesson from the Bayer company who successfully marketed Heroin beginning in 1898 as a "cough medicine and pain reliever". Heroin was written about in medical journals and studies endorsed heroin for treating asthma, bronchitis, phthisis and tuberculosis. Free samples were sent out by the thousands to physicians in Europe and the US. Between 1899 and 1905, at least 180 clinical works on Heroin were published around the world. In 1906, the American Medical Association approved heroin for medical use...
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