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Innovation failures: Heroin

Original Heroin bottle by Bayer

In 1874 the german chemist Felix Hoffman wanted to create a new kind of medication; a safe non-addictive drug that would help people addicted to the great painkilling drug Morphine. While working for the medical firm Bayer he was able to synthesize diacetylmorphine. Read the rest of this entry »

 

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