The early history of methadone. Myths and facts

Bull Anesth Hist. 2007 Oct;25(3):13-6. doi: 10.1016/s1522-8649(07)50035-1.

Abstract

This review refutes some enduring myths surrounding the discovery of methadone and presents the known accurate facts of its creation and its early development in Germany, the United States and Great Britain from 1939 to the early 1960's.

Publication types

  • Biography
  • Historical Article
  • Portrait

MeSH terms

  • Analgesics, Opioid / history*
  • Drug Industry / history
  • History, 20th Century
  • Humans
  • Methadone / history*
  • Pharmacology / history
  • United States
  • World War II

Substances

  • Analgesics, Opioid
  • Methadone

Personal name as subject

  • Gustav Ehrhart
  • Max Bockmühl
  • Otto Schaumann