quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
Speaking of the people's car, did you know that methadone was originally called adolphine, after Adolf Hitler? True story. |
Fake story.
quote: | Methadone was developed in 1939 Germany by scientists working for I.G. Farbenkonzern at the Farbwerke Hoechst (it is synthesised from 1,1-diphenylbutane-2-sulfonic acid and dimethylamino-2-chloropropane) who were looking for an synthetic opioid that could be created with readily available precursors, to solve Germany's opium shortage problem.[2] On September 11, 1941 Bockmühl and Ehrhart filed an application for a patent for a synthetic substance they called Hoechst 10820 or polamidon (a name still in regular use in Germany) and whose structure had no relation to morphine or the opiate alkaloids (Bockmühl and Ehrhart, 1949). |
quote: | A persistent but untrue urban legend claims that the trade name "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". Typically, the claim is still presented as fact by Church of Scientology literature[4] and was repeated by actor and vocal Scientologist Tom Cruise in a 2005 Entertainment Weekly interview.[5] However, as the magazine pointed out, this is not true: the name "Dolophine" was in fact created after the war by the American branch of Eli Lilly,[6] and the pejorative term "adolphine" (never an actual name of the drug) appeared in the United States in the early 1970s.[7] |
You lying bitch
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