Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suntan pills, Meloxine and Oxsoralen (TIME, Aug. 4), the A.M.A. declared: "No one knows what will happen to the skin when courses of methoxsalen and sun exposures are repeated once, twice, or oftener each year for many years. Nor is it yet certain what effects, good or bad, this drug will have on the development and course of skin malignancies or on the usual senile skin changes." Determined not to have its editorial head turned by the bronzed body beautiful, the A.M.A. concluded that "even the esthetic value of its effects is still dubious...
There is little logical reason why the Rexall Drug Co. should prosper. The nation's biggest drug chain (11,158 franchised stores), it breaks most of the textbook rules. Its distribution system is as old-fashioned as a Stanley Steamer. It has two-thirds of its stores scattered where only one-third of the population lives. It invests only 2½% of product sales in advertising, well below many of its competitors. But last week greying, handsome President Justin Whitlock Dart, 51, announced that the firm's first-half sales were up 8%, net profit 26%. This year...
Rexall's progress spelled a personal comeback for Justin Dart, ex-wonder boy. When he took over Rexall in 1943 at 36, Dart became the hottest shot in the conservative drug business-until Rexall earnings dipped sharply in 1947. Dart owned up frankly to the board: "I know I look bad now. But before I look better, I'm going to look worse." Sure enough, things got worse...
Last week, climaxing a two-year investigation of the wonder-drug industry, the FTC accused six major companies of rigging the price on tetracycline, the biggest and most popular of the so-called "broad spectrum drugs," i.e., useful against a wide variety of microorganisms. Tetracycline accounted in 1956 for 24% of the industry's sales dollars but only 7% of the physical volume...
...Upjohn claimed to have made it safer, the firm warned that 8-MOP is dangerous unless taken in strict accordance with doctors' orders: only two tablets a day, at least two hours before exposure to the sun, then tan very gradually-otherwise, a worse burn than without the drug. And it is emphatically not for children. So far, Upjohn has had no reports of severe mishaps, but nearly all dermatologists are still set against use of 8-MOP as a tanning aid, warn that it can cause stomach upsets and even liver damage...