Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clear from the figures that more addicts can be salvaged by methadone than by any other method."-Dr. Vincent Dole, Rockefeller University...
These statements, both by experts deeply concerned about epidemic drug abuse, typify the growing controversy over methadone as a substitute for heroin. Last week, in a book that may help to resolve the controversy, Consumers Union came out strongly on the Dole side of the argument. Licit and Illicit Drugs, a five-year study by Medical Writer Edward Brecher and the editors of Consumer Reports (Little, Brown; $12.50), advocates legalizing marijuana, supplying heroin, opium and morphine to some addicts on an experimental basis, and providing methadone maintenance-legal administration of methadone to heroin users-for every drug abuser who asks...
...Metabolic Specialist Vincent Dole and his wife, Psychiatrist Marie Nyswander, conducted the first pioneering experiments in methadone maintenance. Their success helped make maintenance a preferred U.S. method of rehabilitation. Already some 60,000 of the country's 600,000 addicts are being treated at 460 public and private clinics in 40 states; another 30,000 are on waiting lists. As use widens, problems mushroom, and critics have begun to remind advocates that heroin itself, when it was discovered in 1898, was touted as a desirable alternative to morphine...
...association." Clark MacGregor, Nixon's campaign director, angrily denounced the Post in particular for using "huge scare headlines" and acting "maliciously" and with "hypocrisy" to link the White House to such political espionage. Uncharacteristically, the usually candid MacGregor did not allow newsmen to question him. Senator Robert Dole, the Republican National Chairman, accused McGovern and the Post of being "in a partnership in mudslinging...
...phones in his former office. Meanwhile, Williams has filed a request to take depositions from 17 more people in O'Brien's $1,000,000 violation-of-civil-rights suit against, among others, the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Republican National Committee Chairman Robert Dole has berated the Democrats for adopting "guilt-by-deposition" tactics...