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...time in a millennium, doctors have made a scientific study of the effects of hashish on a large body of men who were not professional criminals or chronically undernourished or otherwise disadvantaged. During the three years beginning in September 1968, Major Forest S. Tennant Jr. and Major C. Jess Groesbeck, at the U.S. Army hospital in Wurzburg, West Germany, had an "accessible, defined population" of 36,000 G.I.s, and a questionnaire indicated that no fewer than 16,000 of these had used hash at least once. The drug was more readily available than marijuana, and thousands of men were...
...Groesbeck, Texas...
...overall director of the department of health, Craig imported Rear Admiral (ret.) Bertram Groesbeck Jr., former commanding officer of the famous Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md. As the state's first commissioner of mental health, Craig picked an unlikely looking candidate: a handsome, 41-year-old blonde with grey-green eyes, Dr. Margaret Elaine Morgan, a topnotch Indiana psychiatrist. Governor Craig was not deterred by the fact that her brother, Ivan H. ("Jack") Morgan, was feuding with him in G.O.P. councils (he has since booted the brother out of party office, kept the sister on at a higher...
Governor Craig and Drs. Morgan and Groesbeck went through Indiana's mental hospitals like ferrets through a rabbit warren. At Indianapolis' Central State Hospital, an ancient, overcrowded firetrap within sight of the Statehouse, they found the men's infirmary as bad as any storied bedlam. The 55 patients were nearly all incontinent, and spent day and night lying naked on their beds in their own excrement. "Meals" consisted of cold slop, eaten with a spoon. None ever left the "infirmary" except to go to the morgue...
...Muscatatuck State School for the Mentally Retarded. Dr. Groesbeck saw his first case of rickets in 36 years as a licensed physician, so bad was the malnutrition. Expensive new medical and dental equipment was found crated in basements, where it had rusted for ten years or more -nobody was interested enough to unpack it, and anyhow, there was no technical staff...