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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's from the German word "heroisch", which is basically "heroic". They used it being a homonym for "heroine" to use women heroes or Valkyrie in marketing for a bit, because it'll save you from that nasty cough.

It didn't really go by anything before, since it's not something super easy to make, and so the first people to really make a lot of it was Bayer, and they named it heroin.

Before heroin people had morphine, and heroin had been made as "diamorphine", but it just wasn't really a thing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In the 80's there was a brand of cough suppressant pills with codeine (prescription only) called Tussigon, as codeine is a an anti-tussive (anti-cough).

[–] pizzazz 2 points 8 months ago

They're still all over the place. It's the main ingredient of lean.