http://mindhacks.com/2009/03/09/a-brief-history-of-aspirin/ Neuroscience and psychology tricks to find out what's going on inside your brain. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:27:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2009/03/09/a-brief-history-of-aspirin/#comment-5915 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:32:25 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/a-brief-history-of-aspirin/#comment-5915 Oops, that was “heroin” not “heroine”–I just finished draft 7 of my latest novel. I have heroines on the brain.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/03/09/a-brief-history-of-aspirin/#comment-5914 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:31:10 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/a-brief-history-of-aspirin/#comment-5914 The heroin/aspirin connection makes sense in the historical context. At that time heroin and cocaine were legal and were used, along with opium, as part of the medical repertoire of common medicines, as well as available in a lot of commercial concoctions. Back then it was probably more surprising that ASA became such a success than synthetic heroine.

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