10 Awesome Movies about Drug Addiction | Whether you’re a drug user or not, if you want to watch a movie that can make you sick to your stomach, watch a drug addiction movie. I think one of the main draws to these movies is not only the excess they portray, but these movies dive into worlds that we never thought were possible. I mean when you think your life is down, just see what happens to people who you think have lives twice as good as yours get completely wrecked by their addictions. It’s truly disturbing and yet these movies are very important to relay how destructive drug addiction can be. Here are 10 great movies about drug addiction. Less than Zero Interesting that in real life, this movie was pretty damned accurate concerning Robert Downey Jr.’s life. Rush Just a disturbing movie all around.
Trainspotting One of my favorite movies about drug addiction, Trainspotting explores heroin at its finest. Permanent Midnight This movie just messed me up all around. Requiem for a Dream Traffic Pure The Basketball Diaries Drugstore Cowboy. Mouse Party. Lower reinforcing strength of the phenyltropane cocaine analogs RTI-336 and RTI-177 compared to cocaine in nonhuman primates. Development of the dopamine transporter selective RTI-336 as a pharmacotherapy for cocaine abuse. BAYER- INVENTOR OF HEROIN. Did you know that Heroin was originally a brand name for cough syrup? In 1874, German scientists developed a formula for a painkiller that they thought would be less addictive than morphine. They simply added two acetyls to morphine to synthesize diacetylmorphine. Heinrich Dreser, the head of Bayer drug development tried it on animals and humans. He, also, tried it on himself, which may have been the problem. He was very pleased with the results and decided it was a good treatment for many ailments especially respiratory ones like bronchitis, asthma and tuberculosis.
The Bayer company started marketing Heroin in 1898. Bayer gave out free samples of Heroin to doctors. Something odd happened. The scientists thought that Heroin was not as addictive as morphine, but it turned out to be two to three times more addictive. Bayer stopped producing and selling Heroin in 1913 and deleted mention of it in their official company history.