Wonder Drug Quotes

“In addition to thalidomide, Grünenthal’s painkiller tramadol—created in 1962 by former SS doctor Ernst-Günther Schenck—sparked a decades-long global opioid crisis before it was classified as a Schedule IV controlled substance in 2014.”
― Jennifer Vanderbes, Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims

“A charismatic bachelor, he traveled with two valets and a pet bulldog. Two tracks of silver hair flanked his wide bald crown. Wire-rimmed spectacles and a nearly lipless mouth lent his face a scholar’s intensity.”
― Jennifer Vanderbes, Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims