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Heroin was one of the few pain killers used during the American Civil War. When soldiers came home they would often be addicted to heroin, thus starting the spread. So it started to become used greatly during the Reconstruction Era.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 11y agoheroin was invented accidently in Germany as a supposedly non-addictive replacement for morphine
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∙ 12y agoHeroin was developed after World War II in an effort to help wean soldiers off morphine, at the time it was thought to be less addictive.
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400,000
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2
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