Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mounting anti-Washington tide, a movement against Government interference in citizens' lives that involves states' rights, freedom of the individual and the fundamental subject of people's health. The question: Should state legislatures make an end run around federal bureaucrats and legalize the use of drugs that the Food and Drug Administration has banned or not yet approved? They are Laetrile, an unproved anticancer nostrum, dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), Gerovital and saccharin...
...state-by-state movement to legalize drugs of questionable value has chiefly involved Laetrile, which is already being used illicitly by tens of thousands of American cancer sufferers. The substance is smuggled into the U.S., mainly from Mexico. No reputable studies have found evidence to support claims that the drug cures or prevents cancer (TIME, May 23). Its use is opposed by the American Medical Association, and Dr. Frank Rauscher, American Cancer Society senior vice president for research, insists: "We know doggone well that Laetrile doesn't work." But backers put their faith in tales of miracle apricot...
...wars were still all around us. Veterans everywhere! Professors and students returning to pick up careers that had been interrupted by service in Europe or in the Pacific: the men from the Pacific theater sometimes still had that yellow pallor that came from taking atabrine, an early anti-malarial drug. A boy down the hall from me in Weld had escaped with his mother from the Warsaw ghetto. That fall the indoor gym for a while was filled with cots to acommodate the sudden influx of returning soldiers--occupation troops from Europe or MacArthur's command...
...opposition to Laetrile [May 23] in view of its acceptance by a large number of citizens? The power of the mind is still a great healer, and those who believe in the drug should have access...
...broader consensus opposed the ban on saccharin imposed by the federal Food and Drug Administration. An impressive 75% of those questioned said that instead of banning the sweetener, the Government should mandate labels warning of its potential dangers and should allow consumers to decide for themselves whether or not to use it. Moreover, 53% said it was wrong to ban saccharin since the evidence of its harmfulness to humans is too skimpy...