- Opium and its derivatives like morphine and heroin have been used medically for thousands of years to relieve pain. In the early 19th century, morphine was isolated from opium and its medical uses grew.
- By the late 19th century, laudanum (an opium tincture) was commonly used and misused as an analgesic, antidiarrheal, and antispasmodic in patent medicines. Its widespread use led to addiction and abuse problems.
- In the 1800s, scientists began to recognize withdrawal symptoms and the potential for dependence and compulsion with long-term opiate use. However, opiates remained a mainstay of medical treatment for pain and other
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15. 1400 BCE Crete Poppy goddess The poppy heads are cut to extract the opium before the pods ripen in the same way as they are now
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75. This new instrument was developed with the promise to reduce morphine addiction By the reduced doses required via interjection compared to oral use. Many, if not all “new tools” in the treatment of addiction, started as “cures” and ended as curses.
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193. A persistent but untrue urban legend claims that the trade name of Methadone "Dolophine" was coined in tribute to Adolf Hitler by its German creators, and it is sometimes even claimed that the drug was originally named "adolphine" or "adolophine" or "Dolphamine". The claim is still presented as fact by Church of Scientology literature and was repeated by actor and vocal Scientologist Tom Cruise in a 2005 Entertainment Weekly interview.
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