Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Enrique Blanco, a 29-year-old Puerto Rican, has been through that routine and now goes five days a week to a storefront clinic run by Beth Israel's Morris J. Bernstein Institute. There he takes a maintenance dose of methadone and leaves, in exchange, a sample of his urine; on Fridays he receives a ñapa of two methadone drinks to take over the weekend...
...challenges of the next dec ade, the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education last week prescribed some preventive medicine. What is needed, said the commission, is nothing less than a $10 billion annual increase in federal spending, plus the creation of 550 new colleges. Without that expensive and expansive dose, the 14-man committee of educators and businessmen reported, the U.S. will fall far short of meeting a vital need for more and better higher education for more and more students of all income groups...
...tended to start off with a slower heartbeat, showed a greater but not alarming increase. There was no significant increase in breathing rates. The tests confirmed the widely reported "redeye" effect of pot: the small blood vessels in the whites of the eyes became dilated, and the higher the dose the greater the dilation...
...researchers qualified the conclusions of their study. It is unknown, they wrote, how intense a dose is typically taken in illegal circumstances. Nor could they tell how their subjects' expectations influenced the drug's psychological effects...
...great a dose either killed or sickened the sheep, and too little failed to produce the desired effect. But the researchers soon discov ered that a dose of about nine milligrams for every pound of the sheep's body weight produced just the right result. The drug affected the wool fiber only where it is produced, in follicles below the surface of the skin, and acted for about 24 hours before being dissipated by the body. During this period, cell growth was retarded, producing thinner than normal segments on each fiber before normal growth resumed. Six or seven days...