What do you know about Bayer commercializes heroin?
In the late 1890s, the German company Bayer became the first to commercialize heroin as a treatment for coughs, colds, and pains associated with tuberculosis. It was advertised as a safer alternative to morphine, which had shown addictive side effects. #GEOG203 #bio
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