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...Hans W. Breiter, the assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School who ran the tests as part of research on the physiological effects of cocaine, had to clear a number of bureaucratic hurdles in order to administer the drug in his lab. Researchers who work with illegal narcotics must receive approval from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for a grant of exemption from prosecution for the possession, distribution and dispensing of controlled substances. Once granted immunity from the law, researchers are free to inject narcotics into rats, rabbits and other small woodland animals to their heart?...
...addition to extensive legal protection offered to subjects, exhaustive health safety measures were also taken by Breiter and his colleagues. “The number of safety measures you have to take is beyond imagination,” says Breiter, who had to design an extensive emergency protocol and have a psychiatrist and a cardiologist present whenever administering cocaine. “It looks like we’re sending an astronaut into space,” he jokes. And with good reason. Breiter’s studies involved injecting up to 40mg of “government grade?...
...JOHN E. BREITER...