History of Drugs

Approximately 2000 yr BC in Samaria known flower essence opiun known or later in opium ( opium = papavor somniferitum ) . This flower thrives in upland areas above an altitude of 500 meters above sea level . The next deployment is in the direction of India , China and other Asian regions . China became a very fertile place in the spread of this opiate ( possible because of the climate and the state of the country ) . Entering the seventeenth century, the opium problem for China has menkadi national problem , and even in the nineteenth century opium war in which China finally had to give up ditklukan Britain with Hong Kong .

        In 1806 a physician named Friedrich Wilhelim of Westphalia sertuner find modifications opium mixed with ammonia which was then known as morphine ( named after the Greek god of dreams named Morphius ) . In 1856 when the civil war broke out in the U.S. Morphin is very popular used for pain relief wounds of war , most of the prisoners were " addicted " referred to as the " soldier 's disease " . In 1874 a chemist named Alder Wright of London , boil the liquid morphine with anhydrous acid ( the acid that is a type of fungus ) . This mixture took effect when tested by a dog that is: the dog lies down , fear , drowsiness and vomiting . But in 1898 a drug factory " Bayer " produce the drug under the name heroin , as relieving pain ( pain killer ) . 60s - 70s spread of opium center of the world are in the area of ​​the "Golden Triangle " : Myanmar , Thailand and Laos . With meproduksi : 700 thousand tons per year . Also the area " Golden Crescent " ie Pakistan , Iran and Afghanistan from the Golden Crescent to Africa and America . Besides morphine and heroin adalagi another type of cocaine ( coca throxylor ery ) is derived from the coca plant grown in Peru and Bolavia . Usually used to cure asthma and tuberculosis . At the end of the 70s when the rate of increasing pressure of human life and the technology supporting it diberilah special mixtures that opium can also be in the form of medicines