It wouldn’t be until years later that Bayer, the folks who make our aspirin, coined the name heroin taken from a German word meaning ‘heroic’ because of the feeling the drug gave those who took it. They advertised it as a miracle. The perfect painkiller. It was the medicine of choice used to treat everything from bronchitis to tuberculosis. Mothers gave their children a small dose of heroin at night to help them sleep.”
