Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Widespread violation of the voluntary plan's stipulation that children from the most susceptible age group--five to nine years--receive the vaccine first has aggravated the natural pressures caused by the initial shortage of the medicine. Packages have been going to adults, friends of drug manufacturers, and doctors' children. Perhaps these violations would never have come to light had not the manufacture of the vaccine itself been found to be faulty in some cases. The validity of charges that the government failed extensively to analyze the vaccine prior to releasing it for public use, and that the present spot...
...parking lots. This week the U.S. auto industry passed the 3,000,000 mark in 1955 auto production, the earliest that mark has ever been reached. Lined with brightly colored new cars (even some in girdle pink), parking lots are taking on the appearance of petunia beds. Said Drug Salesman John Tinder of Seymour, Ind.: "There's one feller in town who has a black car. Why, everybody knows where he is all the time...
...given at least 300 injections to patients of their own choice. Of the first 108 precisely checked, 91 had gone to persons under 20, but 17 adults (including several pregnant women) had also received shots. Moreover, 80 packages had been handed out as largesse to employees of the drug houses and their friends and relatives...
...Hollywood, Bela Lugosi, who once spooked moviegoers as Dracula and assorted fiends and zombie doctors, was sent to a state hospital as a drug addict. Now 72, and looking as poorly as any makeup man ever painted him. Lugosi asked to be committed, admitting he had been using narcotics for 20 years. "I don't have a dime left," he said. "I am dependent on my friends for food...
...been avoided if the Government, the National Foundation, the A.M.A. and local medical societies had begun to cooperate months ago. They might easily have made plans for joint action on allocations, but simply failed to get together. The situation was further complicated when, weeks ago, "detail men" for the drug companies called on doctors and asked how much vaccine they wanted. How much they actually got depended less on how far ahead the company was with its production program than on how the salesmen liked individual doctors. Now the unhappiest doctors are those few with a little vaccine. Pressure from...