Word: alpert
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George A. Michael, Deputy Commissioner of the State Health Department, expressed his opinion yesterday that psilocybin "falls into the classification of drugs that must be administered by a physician," but Richard Alpert, assistant professor of Clinical Psychology, disagreed...
...most serious objection to the research being conducted by Richard Alpert, assistant professor of Clinical Psycholgy and Timothy Leary, lecturer on Clinical Psychology, is that people not registered as medical doctors are experimenting with and prescribing potentially dangerous chemicals...
Alfred J. Murphy, senior food and drug inspector of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, has launched an investigation to determine if Alpert and Leary are violating State laws by possessing or prescribing the drugs...
...Alpert and Leary began their psilocybin research two years ago with experiments in Denmark. At that time, the University reportedly received complaints from the Danish government about the work being done...
Leary and Alpert denied Saturday that psilocybin has any physiological after-effects, but admitted that "negative" psychological changes could occur, "depending on the individual's response to the experiment." Leary stated that the dosage would have to be increased "100 times" to cause permanent physiological damage...