Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vets. One reason may be that the number of Viet Nam veterans in Congress now totals 19. Last week, after having rejected a somewhat similar Senate bill four times in the past eight years, the House voted 342 to 0 to appropriate $16 million for psychological, alcoholic and drug counseling for Viet Nam veterans...
Appointed to the bench by President Nixon in 1971, Wood had earned the title "Maximum John" because he handed out stiff sentences in the many drug cases in his district, which stretches from San Antonio to El Paso. In 90 cases involving heroin traffic, he gave out maximum sentences in 65 and never granted probation. He was often reversed and occasionally criticized for his rulings by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. On July 23 he was scheduled to preside over one of his most important trials, that of Las Vegas Gambler Jimmy Chagra, who has been charged with conspiracy...
...Tune, have developed a simple blood test that should be especially useful in treating the nation's estimated 2 million to 5 million schizophrenics. Already tested on 30 patients, it is based on pioneering studies of the brain's receptors, or molecular sites to which its own drug-like chemicals bind-almost as if they were keys in a lock. A blood sample from a patient is added to a tube containing animal brain tissue and a radioactively tagged chemical known to bind to particular receptors. Whatever drug is in the patient's blood displaces the test...
...Harvard, Dr. Joseph Schildkraut and his colleagues have devised a urine test that can distinguish types of depressive disorders and hence indicate the best available drug for treatment...
...comparing results from more than 30 patients suffering varying degrees of depression, they were able to establish two groups: those below a certain urine level responded to relatively low dosages of a test drug; those above either did not respond or had to be given stiff dosages...