Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First to Break. To a second group of students Drs. Bliss and Clark gave minute doses of LSD-25, a drug known to produce schizophrenia-like symptoms. When the subjects were rested, it had no effect; after 48 sleepless hours, the same dose brought on severe hallucinations...
...candid interview that Manhattan might have smothered with a grey-flannel gag. With his lipstick and powder scrubbed away and his long, curled hair combed back, a 22-year-old transvestite named Darrell Wayne Kahler faced the cameras of Confession. He was the latest subject in a line of drug addicts, prostitutes, murderers and alcoholics to answer the unrehearsed questions of Interrogator Jack Wyatt...
Ready for business. Pharmacist Feuillet handed his formula to a pharmaceutical firm for production. He called the drug Stalinon (for some of the ingredients, not for Joe), let it be known that the concoction, to be taken orally, was deadly to staphylococcus infections, mortal to boils and sties, extremely unfriendly to acne. In January 1954 thousands of boxes of Stalinon went to drugstores all over France and French North Africa...
...excruciating pain, fits of delirium, blindness, hallucinations, usually death. De Lignières noted that three of his patients had died in this fashion after taking Stalinon, immediately phoned his suspicions to health authorities in Paris. Emergency orders went out to 14,000 pharmacies to stop sale of the drug...
...Food and Drug Administration has approved the drug for routine use before shipment, but still bans it immediately before slaughter on the chance that some of the steer's contentedness might be passed on to the customer...