Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name, chlorpromazine is a versatile and fantastically interesting drug to medical researchers. Peppery young (38) Dr. Henri Laborit, who darts from experiment to experiment in his Paris laboratory at Val de Grâce Hospital, used the brand-new chemical on animals late in 1950. He found that it worked against shock and produced the effects of hibernation. Laborit promptly organized a research team to make the most of these effects, and from its combined efforts came the "lytic cocktail." In this, chlorpromazine is combined with Phenergari and Dolosal to block the automatic nervous system...
Laborit found U.S. doctors the most cautious in their approach to the new drug. They are still skeptical of his lytic cocktail, and have set 80° as the lowest temperature to which a patient can be dropped without danger of heart failure. But they have found plenty of other uses for chlorpromazine. Just as it serves as a preamplifier for anesthetics, it intensifies the effect of barbiturates and narcotics. Thus, patients with unbearable pain can get along with less morphine-and, hence, less danger of becoming resistant or addicted...
...beast to find the limits of its usefulness and its possible dangers. Late this month 12,000 doctors at the A.M.A.'s annual convention in San Francisco will have a chance to see exhibits describing what has been learned. Papers on the subject are being published. Though the drug is now available on prescription, it is recommended so far only for vomiting and in mental illness because much has yet to be learned about...
When the FBI arrested Bonnie Brown Heady in St. Louis for her part in the kidnap-killing of Bobby Greenlease (TIME, Oct. 19), they found a bottle of pills in her purse. The FBI told the Food & Drug Administration. In the death house, FDA Investigator Roy Pruitt interviewed Bonnie Heady and her partner, Carl Austin Hall. Where, Pruitt wanted to know, did they get the stuff without a prescription? Neither would tell. But Hall said he had been under the influence of the drug, plus liquor, when he killed the boy, and did not think he could have committed...
Because they feel so good right after taking a goof ball and so rotten after it wears off, most non-medical users reach for another when the effect of one begins to pale. Though amphetamine is not technically an addicting drug, it is habit-forming. Neurotics have a vicious-circle routine: goof balls to wake them up and keep them going through the day, then barbiturates to still the jags and jitters and lull them to sleep. Over-the-road truck drivers take amphetamine to keep awake, and highway authorities suspect that many unexplained accidents result from the hallucinations which...