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"In 1803, a German pharmacist, F.W. Sertürner isolated the main alkaloid of opium and named it morphine after Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams. Morphine was soon widely used for medical purposes in Europe and the U.S. But by the end of the century, addiction to the drug had become a problem. In 1898, while searching for a non-addictive substitute for morphine, Heinrick Dresser, working at the Bayer Laboratory in Germany, developed diacetylmorphine. #Bayer marketed it under the brand name Heroin. The new drug, however, turned out to be up to ten times more potent than #morphine."

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/from-poppy-to-heroin-step-1-planting-opium-poppy/3168/
#aspirin #heroin #opium #bayer