3. The Physiology of Methadone Maintenance
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Methadone (adolphine, dolophine, adanon, amidone, physeptone, althose, miadon, butalgin, diadone, polimadone) is a synthetic substitute for heroin. The drug was originally synthesized by the German firm I. G. Farben in 1941 and appropriately named "Adolphine." Since morphine was unavailable in Germany during World War II for relieving pain in battlefield injuries, methadone was developed as a synthetic substitute on orders from Hitler.
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