Charles Romley Alder Wright: The Invention That Changed The World

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The various inventions of mankind have not only become pieces of humanity, but necessities to humans themselves, and many would admit after generations of inventing that their lives would be much different without some of these breakthroughs. But -undoubtedly- the invention with the hardest hit on society is the drug, heroin. In 1874, a medical professor named Charles Romley Alder Wright changed the world with the release of the drug (at the time a medical supply). After being aggressively advertised by the pharmaceutical company Bayer, heroin came to booming success and drastically altered the medical market, being sold for almost 20 years until a law banning the legal use of the drug. By 1914 (the year it was outlawed),

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