Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Early in 1975, said Boyce, he attended a party at the home of Lee, a convicted drug dealer who had violated his parole and was a fugitive. As the two drank wine and smoked pot late into the evening, the talk turned to politics and the complaints both had against the U.S. Government. "You ought to hear what the CIA is doing to the Australians," Boyce told his friend. Then he cited materials that had crossed his desk at TRW telling how the CIA had infiltrated Australian labor unions...
...used diethylstilbestrol, or DES, but in their daughters-some 15 or 20 years after birth. Their sons are apparently not threatened by cancer, but there are indications that in some cases they may also be affected-by genital deformities or sterility. By 1971, when the federal Food and Drug Administration warned physicians against prescribing DES to prevent miscarriage, perhaps as many as 2 million women had taken the drug...
...clear that DES created a legal time bomb as well. Billions of dollars worth of damage suits against drug companies (and in a few cases against hospitals and physicians) have already been filed by apparent DES victims and their relatives. Last week former U.S. Representative Patsy T. Mink of Hawaii, now an Assistant Secretary of State, announced that she was seeking $77.7 million for herself and 1,080 other women she says were subjected to DES in a 1951-52 clinical study...
...drug companies declare that the medication was effective in its basic purpose-combatting miscarriage-and that clear-cell adenocarcinoma, a cancer of the vagina or cervix, appears naturally in the population as a whole. In addition, according to one drug-company lawyer, the DES lawsuits have "many persnickety permutations." Although thousands of young women whose mothers took DES have developed the adenosis formation, so far fewer than 200 of them are known to be suffering from the cancer. One of the first legal complications for most victims in suing, however, is the difficulty in linking an individual pill user with...
...suspicion that alcoholism is due not to social conditioning-as the Rand study implied-but to lasting chemical changes in the brain. Still, Myers, who has also discovered a chemical that reduces alcohol consumption in addicted animals, holds out hope. If alcoholism is really rooted in brain chemistry, a drug treatment may be devised to help the problem drinker...