Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stop Smoking" [TIME, Sept. 15] prompts an addict to reply: Why? Tobacco is a drug but a good drug. Consider the eminent and distinguished persons, men & women, of high repute, superior judgments and discriminating tastes, who find comfort and release from nervous tensions through the soothing influence of this mild narcotic . . . Lady Nicotine is a dear . . . Don't ever let them take it away...
...year-old woman who went to Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital complaining of palpitations and a "smothering sensation" had nothing wrong with her heart. Drs. W. Proctor Harvey and Samuel A. Levine ordered psychiatric treatment for her. Then the patient volunteered to test the effect of a drug (amyl nitrite) on heart sounds. At first the electrocardiograph gave normal readings; so did the phonocardiograph. But as soon as the patient saw the drug, her heart began a machine-gun beat. Scared nearly to death themselves, the doctors put the drug away and her heart went back to normal...
...implied lack of supervision this is completely misleading. Two federal regulatory agencies maintain close supervision over packaged medicines. The most important legal safeguard of the family medicine chest is the Food and Drug Administration, which administers the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act. This Act prohibits the sale in interstate commerce of products that are adulterated or dangerous to health. The law also establishes minimum standards of strength, quality and purity for many drugs. It establishes specifications for the labeling of drugs, so as to avoid misbranding. The other regulatory body is the Federal Trade Commission, which maintains supervision over...
Five: "New methods must be found for settling national emergency disputes'. . . The right to bargain collectively does not include the right to stop the national economy." Stevenson said that he had "no miracle-drug solution for this problem...
...Indian doctors report great success in treating fever relapses with a single dose of inexpensive Camoquin; they have also found that later relapses are few, and spaced farther apart. U.S., British and Belgian researchers are hard at work testing yet another new drug, daraprim. A thousand times as powerful as quinine, it can be taken in tiny, tasteless doses, and newborn Negro babies in Africa show no ill effects. So far, varying results with daraprim reflect the protean nature of malaria itself...