still poisoning us - this was on the market from the Bayer corp
"From 1898 through to 1910 heroin was marketed as a non-addictive morphine substitute and cough medicine for children. Bayer marketed heroin as a cure for morphine addiction before it was discovered that heroin is converted to morphine when metabolized in the liver. The company was somewhat embarrassed by this new finding and it became a historical blunder for Bayer."
or was it a blunder? perhaps a way to get people addicted to the product for what else? hmmm - Money?