Cough Medicine to Dangerous Drug The article “The Heroine Drug History & Facts,” published by Heroininfo.org, (2010) is about heroin’s background and where most of the heroin is produced from today. The article notes that “diacetylmorphine,” which derives from the opium in poppy plants, was created in 1874 by a chemist in England named C. R. Alder Wright when he conducted an experiment in which he boiled morphine with other “various acids”. The drug did not gain much traction until it was re-created 23 years later in Elberfield, Germany by a chemist at the Bayer pharmaceutical firm named Felix Hoffman. The idea was to create a codeine similar to morphine that was not as strong or addictive. Instead, the drug turned out to be twice as strong
