Drugs in War: A Long, Troubled History
For thousands of years, warriors have used drugs to aid them in battle, from drunk Romans to frenzied Viking berserkers on magic mushrooms. Hitler was no exception.
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For thousands of years, warriors have used drugs to aid them in battle, from drunk Romans to frenzied Viking berserkers on magic mushrooms. Hitler was no exception.
Before the First World War, the collaborative research efforts of the German university system and German corporations enabled the German corporate sector as a whole to obtain a virtual worldwide monopoly on drugs whose production required chemical expertise and industrial capacity. This research was fueled by revenues from the sale of morphine, an alkaloid found in opium, first identified by a German chemist in the early 19th century and patented by Merck soon afterward. German pharmaceutical companies’ work with morphine and its derivatives found particular success in using them as...
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