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Heroin got its name from the German word heroisch, meaning heroic, perhaps because of its ability to suppress coughs.
Wired Top Stories Patrick Di Justo 2011
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In fact, according to Wikipedia, in the late 1800s, Bayer would name the substance "heroin", probably from the word heroisch, German for heroic, because in field studies people using the medicine felt "heroic".
American Policy Shift in Afghanistan Opium Production, or is it? 2009
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Using the tradename "Heroin" — because early testers said it made them feel heroisch heroic — Bayer sold this popular drug by the truckload starting in 1898.
Archive 2008-10-01 Noni Mausa 2008
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Bayer & Company marketed the novel semisynthetic opiate as a cough suppressant, dubbing it heroin -- from heroisch, "powerful" in
Chicago Reader 2010
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