Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Does saccharin cause bladder cancer in human beings? This question is at the center of a debate that has raged since March 1977, when the Food and Drug Administration announced?largely on the basis of tests on rats?that it was planning to ban the artificial sweetener. Deluged with complaints from food manufacturers and consumers, Congress imposed an 18-month delay on the ban. Now come two reports that question the wisdom of any prohibition of saccharin...
...quiet hospital in suburban New Jersey, 13 patients die mysteriously during 1965 and 1966. Ten years later, a reporter for the New York Times, M.A. (for Myron Abba) Farber, reveals that mostly empty vials of a powerful and potentially lethal drug called curare were found in the locker of a certain "Doctor X." The state begins to investigate. What some experts believe to be traces of curare are found in exhumed bodies, and a grand jury indicts the man Farber, in his stories, had carefully called only Doctor X?Surgeon Mario Jascalevich?for allegedly murdering five patients...
...Bourne affair began as a routine drug arrest. Physical Therapist Toby Long, 26, asked a pharmacist in Woodbridge, Va., a hamlet 25 miles south of Washington, D.C., to fill a prescription. The prescription called for 15 tablets of Quaalude, a potent sedative that is sometimes prescribed for insomnia and frequently abused because of its mythical properties as an aphrodisiac. By chance, a state pharmacy inspector, Kathleen Watt, was in the store and decided to verify Long's prescription. When she tried to call the doctor who had written it and found that the doctor's phone had been...
...case suddenly became more than routine once it was known that the doctor who had prescribed the drug was Bourne, Carter's chief adviser on mental health and narcotics policies. In 1970, while Bourne was working as a psychiatrist in Atlanta, then Governor Carter appointed him to head Georgia's office of drug abuse. Bourne later became one of the first aides to urge Carter to run for the Presidency. When he was appointed to the $51,000-a-year White House position last year, the President described him as "probably the world's foremost expert...
Bourne's involvement in a drug case, however minor, shocked the White House. At first Carter's aides agreed to let the psychiatrist try to ride out the controversy. On Wednesday Bourne took a paid leave of absence. He later explained: "I didn't want to create the kind of situation Bert Lance had. The more you hang in, the more people go after you. I will resolve it and come back." Bourne also issued a statement justifying his conduct: he had written a prescription for one of his aides, Ellen Metsky, 25, who was suffering from...