Meaning of Adolophine | Babel Free

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Apocryphal former name for the drug methadone.

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“Nazi scientists created Adolophine (named for Hitler). After the war, the "A" was dropped. The new name⟳ was dolophine. The chemical fact, however, is that dolophine is methadone.”

“Although it has been widely asserted that one of the first trade⟳ names given to methadone - Dolophine - was a derivation of Adolf (and even that it was called Adolophine in Germany - the A being dropped after the war), in fact the name⟳ Dolophine was created for the drug as a trade⟳ name⟳ after the war by the Eli-Lilly pharmaceutical company in America.”

“For instance, how many politicians could have⟳ stated unchallenged, as Tom did during a TV interview on Entertainment Tonight in 2005, that psychiatry was a "Nazi science" and that methadone, a drug used to fight⟳ heroin addiction, was originally called Adolophine after Adolf Hitler?”

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