Who was Mickey Finn, and why did he become famous in the early 1900s?
A) He was a physician who first used chloral hydrate during dental surgery.
B) He was a bartender who was prosecuted for adding chloral hydrate to customers' drinks to incapacitate and then rob them.
C) The first pharmacist from Germany who introduced methaqualone as an over-the-counter (nonprescription) drug in the 1960s.
D) First Canadian charge under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA), for illegally making synthetic methaqualone.

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Mickey Finn became infamous in the early 1900s for his criminal activities as a bartender in Chicago, where he was accused of drugging his customers' drinks with chloral hydrate to incapacitate them and then rob them. This act gave rise to the term "slipping a Mickey Finn," meaning to drug someone's drink with the intent of incapacitating them.

Who Was Mickey Finn, and Why Did He Become Famous