Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ironically, it is the law and the methods of its enforcement that have convinced Murtagh, charged with the administration of the law, that drug addiction is less of a legal than a social and medical problem. Murtagh is outraged because bull-necked Federal Narcotics Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger dismisses the addict as "an immoral, vicious social leper." As the law works, Murtagh points out, multimillionaire underworld masterminds are virtually never caught (Genovese is a rare exception), and neither are the stratified middlemen, who peddle heroin in amounts down to ounces (at $500 an ounce for the pure "horse...
...three classes of athletes," the researchers' report stated, "the majority of subjects performed better under amphetamine than under placebo." Over three-quarters of those receiving the drug did better than when performing with a placebo dose...
...athletes, given either the drug amphetamine or a placebo, were tested nearly 800 times. Drs. Gene M. Smith and Henry K. Beecher conducted the Harvard study, which was correlated with similar work done at Springfield College, and with a national survey of coaches...
...biggest strike in the history of U.S. hospitals bedeviled New York City last week. At six voluntary, nonprofit hospitals (four in Manhattan, one each in. The Bronx and Brooklyn), nurses' aides, orderlies, porters, kitchen and laundry help hit the bricks on orders of Local 1199, Retail Drug Employees Union, A.F.L.-C.I.O. This week, with no settlement in sight, the union was threatening to strike several more hospitals...
Greatest casualty of the fire was an estimated $8500 worth of cigar and tobacco products of the famed tobacconists, since the Pure Food and Drug Act forbids sale of any products possibly contaminated by smoke. Bolter & Co., adjoining Leavitt and Peirce reported no damage despite the heavy outpouring of smoke...