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...issue is more important than the candidate," agrees Lester Grinspoon, associate professor of psychiatry. "Three or four of us met with Hart when he was in Boston and chatted with him about the nuclear issue, along with Carl Sagan and others...
...physicians' involvement, says Grinspoon, has been limited due to Hart campaign office problems. "We had hoped to do some work with Hart," Grinspoon says, "but the campaign was very disorganized. We had also hoped to send a letter to 200 people in support of Hart, but no one there was able to take responsibility for giving us permission to send it," he claims...
...final contributing factor to the rise of coke use may simply be the follow-the-leader syndrome: whatever substance men abuse is often later taken up by women. "It has worked that way with every drug, including cigarettes," says Psychiatrist Lester Grinspoon of the Harvard Medical School. "That makes the women's market the growth area for cocaine abuse...
...cocaine's spell is by no means confined to the obviously troubled or the weak-willed. Free-basing in particular, says Harvard Psychiatry Professor Dr. Lester Grinspoon, "powerfully fastens itself on people." Elizabeth, 33, a Chicago hair stylist, had occasionally sniffed coke for a decade. In the fall of 1981, she tried free-basing and was soon spending whole days with her pipe. "Once I started that, all I wanted was more and more," she says, her voice still full of amazement at her fling. "That's what puzzles me. I'm the type of person...
Sometimes it is purely psychological wounds that drive cocaholics to therapy. But diehard users can be prone to high-pitched anxiety, irrational fears, paranoia and even, reports Harvard's Grinspoon, "out-and-out cocaine psychosis:" Violence is not rare. When Nicky's wife finally smashed his free-basing pipe, he threw furniture and chased her from their suburban house. "I went ape," he says. Mike, the son of a well-to-do South Carolina lawyer, is a patient turned counselor at Charleston's Fenwick Hall drug-treatmeat center. He carried a gun during his cocaine madness...