Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>>>>>>>>>>> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 18:49:02 -0400 From: John Coan <jcoan@alumni.duke.edu> Subject: OT Nazi Drugs WAS:Re: [Leica] Nazi whisky Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.0.20000618184242.00aa3be0@pop-server.nc.rr.com> References: <00cf01bfd929$397022c0$37ea869f@ecn089015> Wasn't he a drug addict? I seem to remember a story that the opiod methadone was invented in Nazi Germany as a substitute for morphine, which was unobtainable due to all the poppy growing areas being under control of the other side in the war. I remember reading he took drugs, perhaps not methadone but amphetamine? In the same stream of thought I read somewhere else that the United States has a strategic reserve of either morphine or opium (from which one may manufacture the former) for war use. With all the newer completely synthetic painkillers now I wonder if this is even a necessity? <<<<<<<<<<<< He was a very heavy amphetamine user. Tweak tweak! Rob. Robert Appleby and Sue Darlow Via Bellentani 36 41100 Modena Italy Tel/fax [39] 059 303436