Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...department on its feet, drafted the major planks in the Eisenhower welfare program, e.g., expansion of social security, federal aid for hospital construction. The career employees in HEW took a genuine liking to the millionaire who was humanly interested in their problems; the Food and Drug Administration staff made him an "honorary inspector...
...with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger; United Artists). All that glitters is not necessarily tin foil. In this picture the moviegoer is offered the prospect of a hoppy ending, in which the hero gets the heroin. The Johnston office, standing to the Production Code ("The illegal drug traffic and drug addiction must never be presented"), has stamped its official nix on the picture-the sort of thundering knock that usually brings a lightning boost at the box office. On the screen, however, the picture provides much more than the cheap thrill it promises. The hero is a man who gets...
Recently, several drug firms produced a "super-aspirin"-a combination of aspirin and a small amount of steroid hormones -which is being publicized as a spectacular remedy for arthritis...
...importance of the aspirin-steroid [hormone] tablet has been exaggerated way out of proportion," said Dr. Joseph J. Bunim, clinical director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases. "Even though the hormone aspirin pills are a prescription drug, there is a real danger that the patient will get too much of them and knock out his adrenal glands. In many instances the patient won't realize he is not taking ordinary aspirin. In others he will enjoy the lift he gets from them and take more and more. In still others, the physician will respond...
...Abramson is almost alone among, U.S. psychiatrists in using LSD for treatment, and like other doctors, he raises a warning finger: it is a dangerous drug, to be used only under strictest medical supervision...