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Nestle? Spectrum? Some random company nobody knows about?

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[-] jrs100000@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also inventing heroin and marketing it as cough medicine.

[-] Ranessin@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

Lots of drugs started out as medicine. And heroin is a great medicine, still used in this sense today.

[-] nevernevermore@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Does it work as cough medicine at all?

[-] 999@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

As a kid I had really bad asthma, which led to a lot of chest congestion. Had codeine around for when it got bad. Worked quite nicely, indeed.

[-] jrs100000@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
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