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[โ€“] jrs100000@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Also inventing heroin and marketing it as cough medicine.

[โ€“] Ranessin@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

Lots of drugs started out as medicine. And heroin is a great medicine, still used in this sense today.

[โ€“] nevernevermore@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does it work as cough medicine at all?

[โ€“] 999@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

As a kid I had really bad asthma, which led to a lot of chest congestion. Had codeine around for when it got bad. Worked quite nicely, indeed.