Meaning of Adolophine | Babel Free

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Apocryphal former name for the drug methadone.

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Examples

“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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