Word: druggings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Without explanation, the library was closed for three days. Inside, unknown to residents, officials of Canada and the U.S. were taking testimony for an international drug trial. Three Canadians had previously been extradited to Milwaukee to stand trial on federal charges...
...such, a quintessentially gonzo situation. Hunter Thompson and his "technical adviser" (drug conduit) Yail Bloor, while escaping the angry Yucatan town of Cozumel and unpaid bills for hotel rooms, drugs and cars, have to get rid of "two hits of MDA, six tabs of acid, about a gram and a half of raw cocaine, four reds and a random handful of speed" before their Aeromexico flight touches down in Texas. The Lone Star State, it seems, has a reputation for being unfriendly to people who try to carry massive amounts of hallucinogens through customs...
Even during his tenure as an "objective" reporter--and a pretty competent one--one could see the gonzo straining to get out. In a 1967 New York Times Magazine article on the drug scene, he writes...
...guard against any unwitting influences on the patients or themselves, the doctors did not know which "drug" was being used in any particular case until the end of the test. In the first phase of the experiment, patients who had received placebos experienced less pain than those in the naloxone group. But when the experiment was continued, patients initially in the placebo group but now getting the blocker experienced an increase in pain. In other words, the placebo response diminished. Levine's explanation: somehow placebos apparently activate a body pain-relieving system that relies on endorphin. Says he: "Placebos...
Though doctors have long used placebos to appease patients eager for a drug, even when none is indicated, the practice has lately come under question, most recently in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association. At a time when patients are demanding more candor, many physicians are asking themselves whether they should prescribe deceptively. Other doubts have also been raised. In a study of 60 physicians and 39 nurses at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Drs. James and Jean Goodwin and Albert Vogel found that the majority gave placebos to patients they disliked, considered...