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Thoughts on the Twilight quote “you’re like my own personal brand of heroin”

Upon initial investigation this quote seems to be nonsense as heroin is a street drug and does not operate under brand names like a medication would. Stephenie seems to have showed a lack of knowledge or understanding about drugs and drug culture in writing this line, HOWEVER, upon further thought we may have uncovered a secretly genius writing maneuver. Edward was born in 1901 and was turned into a vampire in 1918. In 1897 the German pharmaceutical company Bayer, founded in 1863, was in the middle of synthesizing multiple drugs including aspirin. Another drug synthesized by Bayer in 1897: HEROIN. Heroin was originally produced and marketed as a cure all drug that was a non addictive form of opium. It was also marketed specifically as a cough suppressant. Put a pin in that. Because of its supposed non addictive nature, heroin was promoted by many health care professionals at the time. This promotion led to the commercialization of heroin (diamorphine) which was sold by many different brands, but was trademarked under the name Heroin at Bayer specifically. In 1914, the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act was passed which controlled the sale of a certain class of drug including heroin and then in 1924 the United States banned the sale of heroin entirely. All of this to say that heroin was circulating as a brand name drug at the time that Edward would have been growing up. He was likely also exposed to heroin in a medical setting and was possibly even prescribed some since he and his mother were both dying of Spanish influenza before Carlisle saved him. A symptom of the flu? COUGH. When Bella tells Edward that he speaks like he’s from another time this is likely what she means (even though it’s still unlikely because I don’t think Bella of all people would know this sequence of facts off hand) because we can see here that Edward’s cultural touch points are outdated and a fact from his childhood, branded heroin, is still readily referenced even though it is no longer culturally relevant. In writing this we can assume that Stephenie either made a mistake that turned out to have some basis in historical fact, or this Mormon housewife has been playing 4D chess with us this entire time. She just gets to sit back and watch as us feeble minded idiots struggle to interpret her gesamtkunstverk that was beamed into her mind as a vision in the night.