Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Martha ("Bunny") Mitchell, 36, special-projects director. The only black on the staff, she was formerly information director for the District of Columbia drug abuse council and head of the D.C. Women's Political Caucus...
...Penney's. The island has gotten just enough of the benefits of the American way of life to feel jealous of it and superior to the rest of Latin America. With the comforts of a consumer society, Puerto Rico has also gotten the problems: industrial society, highway proliferation, drug addiction...
...vaccine that worked well in children; that in the 18 to 25-year-old range, two shots were needed for protection; and that every single vaccine was manufactured without neuraminidase, a protective enzyme that most scientists consider an important element of a vaccine's protection mechanism. Even today drug manufacturers do not understand where they went wrong; they don't know, for example, how the neuraminidase got left out of the recipe. And even now, no one knows whether the vaccine would do any good at all in protecting against a real epidemic...
...agencies that set vaccine policy in the United States, the Bureau of Biologics at the Food and Drug Administration and the Center for Disease Control, tend to rely repeatedly on the same few experts for advice. For example, the Bureau's semi-independent advisory board is chaired by Saul Krugman, who gained notoriety (unfairly, some researchers believe) for infecting retarded children with hepatitis in order to study their condition, and many other members of the board have also experimented in state schools for the retarded. The board is not likely, then, to rigidly enforce ethical standards against other researchers...
...public health funds; the establishment's decision will never be proved wrong--there might have been an epidemic--and it would have been politically foolish to argue. So few public health officials insisted that consumer representatives have a major voice in the decisionmaking. No one objected when the four drug companies that would profit from the program played such a major role in its planning...