Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...famed Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center four years ago. Last week his sardonic words rang truer still. After five years of exhaustive studies with mice, researchers at his world-renowned institute concluded that in spite of early indications it might control the spread of tumors, the controversial drug Laetrile showed no anticancer properties. Yet even while they were strengthening the scientific case against the apricot-pit extract, also known as vitamin B17, Laetrile's supporters were predicting that the drug - now used illicitly by tens of thousands of cancer patients - would soon be sold legally everywhere...
They had reason for optimism. Although the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) refuses to sanction Laetrile as a cancer drug in the absence of anything but "anecdotal" evidence about its value, Indiana, Florida and Texas lawmakers have just joined Alaska in voting to allow use of the drug. Similar bills are pending in some ten other states...
Laetrile has also been winning victories in the courts. A Kansas man who had rectal cancer testified that the compound, which releases cyanide in the body, is keeping him alive. A federal judge not only let him import the drug - available in Mexico, West Germany and other countries - but forced the reluctant FDA to hold its first public hearings on Laetrile. The two-day session in Kansas City, Mo., attracted 300 supporters, who continually booed and jeered the drug's critics...
...appearing before legislative committees, enlisting the support of the nation's doctors, and encouraging the Justice Department to crack down on Laetrile pushers. Among those already convicted: Medical School Dropout Ernst T. Krebs Jr. of San Francisco, who with his late father first advocated Laetrile as an anticancer drug in the U.S. Four of Krebs' associates, some of whom amassed millions of dollars, were found guilty last month of conspiring to smuggle and distribute contraband Laetrile in the U.S. They are scheduled to be sentenced in San Diego federal court this week...
Dickey Betts & Great Southern (Arista). The Allman Brothers Band may have broken up, mostly over the drug and marital problems of Lead Vocalist Gregg Allman, but its brand of bluesy Southern rock lives on with Betts & Co. Betts, whose song writing and soaring guitar solos helped gun the Allman band's engine, keeps his foot to the floor with his new group's debut album. The music moves from hard shakers like Run Gypsy Run to tender love songs like Bougainvillea...