Charles Romley Alder Wright several hours and produced a more potent, acetylated form of morphine, now called "diamorphine (or diacetylmorphine)", also known as heroin. After Wright's death, Heinrich Dreser, a chemist at Bayer Laboratories, continued to test heroin. Bayer marketed it as an analgesic and 'sedative for coughs' in 1898. When its addictive potential was recognized, Bayer ceased its production in 1913. In 1892, Wright was the first to report the existence of the stoichiometric intermetallic compound AlSb (aluminium antimonide), which is now recognized as a compound semiconductor with potential use in high-frequency, low-power consumption microelectronics applications, as well as gamma radiation detection. In
Illegal drug trade in Haiti drug connection's shipment of 66,000 pounds of cocaine. After the 1986 overthrow of Jean-Claude Duvalier the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency created the Service d'Intelligence National (SIN), a Haitian intelligence agency. The unit, staffed by officers of the Haitian army, "engaged in drug trafficking and political violence". The CIA provided half a million to a million dollars per year to train SIN in counter-narcotics, but the group produced no intelligence and instead used their training against political opponents. Illegal drug trade in Haiti The illegal drug trade in Haiti involves trans-shipment of cocaine and marijuana to the United States. It is