How is heroin made?

How is heroin made?

Michael Jourdan (Drug Researcher) gives expert video advice on: What is 'heroin'?; How is heroin made?; Where are heroin opium poppies grown? and more...

Heroin was made in one of the big pharmaceutical companies, actually the same one that made aspirin. Bayer Pharmaceuticals in Germany. They were looking for a good pain killer; they were looking for a cough depressant, and they thought they found it, the perfect one in 1898, and marketed it with the brand name "Heroin". They thought that would sell a lot and it did.