Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Morphine is the best pain-killing drug that doctors know. But it has grave defects: it is habit-forming, makes many patients sick, gradually weakens in its effect until bigger & bigger doses must be given. A new drug which seems to be a great improvement on morphine is now being studied by the U.S. Public Health Service and other researchers. The new drug, amidone, appears much less likely to cause addiction than morphine...
Amidone was developed by German chemists about 1941. It was brought to the U.S. by a team of scientists who learned of it while investigating a German chemical plant at war's end. In the past year, the new drug has been given intensive study at more than 100 U.S. institutions...
...first warning came from a Norwalk, Conn, hospital. Three baby boys, after being dosed with Analbis rectal suppositories, came down with violent poisoning symptoms-vomiting, cramps, drowsiness, convulsions. One was saved by an antitoxin and the other two died of liver poisoning. The drug's manufacturers promptly stopped shipments...
Last week New York City health officials, after discovering six other deaths suspected to have been caused by the same drug, combed the city's drugstores to seize supplies. Meantime, similar deaths were reported in New Jersey, Michigan, Texas...
What had gone wrong? One guess: overdosing. Children whose deaths could definitely be attributed to the drug had all received more than the recommended amount (half a suppository each 24 hours). Two of the preparation's ingredients-bismuth and heptadienecarboxylic acid-are dangerous except in very small doses...