Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Daiichi Seiyaku (meaning No. 1 drug company) ran half-page ads showing men and women with agonized faces, clutching swollen heads and moaning for Atraxin. Daiichi and competitors put up billboards at Tokyo's busiest intersections, where stalled motorists and scared-running pedestrians were urged to help themselves to "cope" by taking a pill. There was even a suggestion (eventually dropped) that similar ads be placed at railroad crossings, bridges and volcano craters, the meccas of the suicide-minded. (Several attempts to commit suicide with overdoses of tranquilizers have failed.) Tranki pills have proved especially popular with students cramming...
...long as 2½ years, hundreds of thousands of diabetics all over the world have been treated with tablets of tolbutamide instead of insulin injections. Many have rejoiced at their new-found freedom from the need for daily needlework. Last week the Upjohn Co. (which markets the drug as Orinase) decided to lay on the line just what it will and will not do. To its Kalamazoo headquarters Upjohn invited 500 physicians to hear reports from Germany's Dr. Ernst Pfeiffer, one of the first investigators to use the drug, and from Chicago's Dr. Rachmiel Levine...
...cousin's appalling story of his death has caused the mother to have the girl put in a mental institution; now she is using her money as a club on relatives and doctor alike. Instead, the skeptical doctor (Robert Lansing) gives the girl an injection of a truth drug, and out of her pours a story ending with the poet's hideous, obscenely cannibalistic fate...
...million suffer from malaria, and 2,000,000 to 2,500,000 die of it. In the 60 years since the discovery that the disease is transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, men of medicine have had periodic fevers of hope about wiping out malaria-with the old drug quinine, with new drugs such as quinacrine, or with mosquito-killing DDT. But malaria proved to be an unexpectedly formidable...
...tiny, disease-causing parasite, conveyed from mosquito to men and back again, has such an incredibly complicated life cycle that no one drug can kill its various forms, lodged in hideouts in different parts of the body. Area spraying (from Airplanes or trucks) is expensive, inefficient and may be self-defeating: some of the Anopheles develop resistance to DDT, thereafter thrive in its presence...