First off, can you tell us your definition of an opiate? I would really like to know. I think most of the other posters here would too. After readin your post, it seems that you have no f'ing idea of wat an opiate is, so fill us in please. Just a hint tho--Heroin is an opiate and it was synthesized by Bayer pharms. Morphine is an opiate and was also synthesized by man. At first I thought maybe you were just nit picking on the difference between a opiate or opioid, but after readin that last post, i dont think you even know wat either one of them is.
Anyways, I think you are the one who needs to do some googling. If you had, you would know that the shit you are saying is ridiculous and nowhere near true.
The stuff you are talkin about is a common urban legend, and it been repeated over and over by people who are uneducated about the history of Methadone. Your post makes it painfully obvious that you are completely unaware of WTF you are talkin about. Hopefully you signed up for Bluelight becuz you wanted to learn more about drugs. Well, heres your chance to get schooled on methadone.
Anyways, onto the googling. This is the information you would find if you had googled it and read any research other than the dumbasses on sites like Yahoo Answers. Even simply reading the Wikipedia article woulda told you that you are wrong.
Hitler absolutely did NOT "invent" Methadone, and he didnt have nothing to do with its discovery. The scientists who discovered it were named Max Bockmuhl and Gustav Erhart and were not working under Hitlers direction, or to help him, and werent associated with him or his plans in no way. They started working on it in 1937 and 1938--before the war even started--and in 1939 it was complete. It was known then as Hoechst-10820 or Va-10820, and pretty much put on the back burner for a few years.
This was becuz the company that Bockmuhl and Erhart worked for, Hoechst, had pretty much no interest in exploring Compound 10820's potential at that time since they had also created Demerol (meperidine), which they thought was much more promising. And it was in much higher demand, so they focused all their attention on that until 1942.
But in the fall of 42 they decided to pay some attention to the forgotten compound 10820, and after doing some of their own tests they decided that they would distribute it, under the name of Amidon, to the German army to test it out. this trial had nothing at all to do with Hitler.
The amounts of the drug that were distributed were very small. Since Demerol was the main product of Hoechst, they hardly manufactured any methadone at all, and did not have much of a supply of it, since it was still a experimental drug. so the amounts that they gave to the military were nowhere near enough to dose an entire army, etc. It was a small scale test on a small group of soldiers, absolutely nothing even close to bein the entire military or nothing like that.
The tests found that it didnt perform well, caused too many "intolerable" side effects, and was ineffective for their needs, and was never used on any german troops again after that first brief test run. It died out as soon as it began and that was a wrap for Amidon/compound 10820's use on any german troops.
There is ZERO evidence that they ever gave it to the german troops in ANY significant amounts. it was a very small experiment that did not last long. there was no large scale use or testing of it on the troops, and it the use that there was, had nothing to do with Hitler or any kind of orders from him.
The reality of the situation is extremely far away from the (false) idea that Methadone was used to keep the entire German military doped up under Hitlers orders. And like I said--hitler most definately did not commission it, pay for it to be used, make ANY kind of money or profit off it, have any personal ties or relation to it, and for gods sake he certainly didnt INVENT it. The only fuckin thing in common between Hitler and Methadone is that they are from the same country at the same time period. Hardly a "coincidence." more like "two totally unrelated things that people constant try to tie together becuz they have heard a stupid urban legend and dont bother to do their own research."
last but not least, i dont even want to hear about how it was called "Dolophine" after Adolf Hitler.
Dolophine was never used as a trade name for Methadone until the 1950's, years after the war was over. It was trademarked by the US drug company Eli Lilly, and was never used anywhere except the us.
And the name comes from the Latin word for suffering, "dolor", and the "phine" part has 2 meanings--one from the "phine" ending of morphine, and the other one from the latin word for "end" or "finish"--"Fin." Thats where the name Dolophine came from--"end suffering/pain." Nothing to do with Hitler, especially since that name was never used in germany or nowhere but the US and it was after Hitler was dead and gone.
So.....Do you want to continue to enlighten us about Methadone and wat it "really" is?